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Seda Pesen B.A. M.A. is an art historian and author. Trained in art history and comparative literature at Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn (Germany), she continued her studies in the master’s programme “Critical and Curatorial Studies” at academy for fine arts Städelschule and Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) with a focus on aesthetic theory, art theory and colonial cultural history. Currently, she works as a researcher at the Laboratory for Cognitive Research in Art History (University of Vienna), within the FWF/DFG-programme “The Museum Gaze”. In her PhD project, she focuses on subjective configurations of the gaze, aesthetics judgements and their habitual entanglements.