Michał Ostrowicki

Michał Ostrowicki (academic pseudonym Sidey Myoo) is a Professor at the Aesthetics Workshop, Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University and the Department of Media Art Theory, Faculty of Intermedia, Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He is a leading scholar in aesthetics, virtual reality, and new media art, with a focus on the philosophical implications of digital and immersive technologies.

• Co-founder of Academia Electronica (2007), a virtual academic platform in Second Life, AltspaceVR, and Spatial.
• Co-editor of Medialica: Multimedia Studies in the Humanities (since 2017).
• Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Pedagogical Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences (2023–26).

His research spans ontoelectronics (a nonlinear ontology of virtual reality), genetic criteria for art, and VR-based pedagogy. He has presented at national and international conferences and collaborated with the Jagiellonian University’s Center for Technology Transfer (2011–12).

Scientific affiliations include:

• Collegium Invisibile (since 2006)
• Polish Philosophical Society (since 2006)
• Academic E-learning Association (since 2013)
• International Association of Aesthetics (since 2008).

He supervises the Philosophy of Technology Section of the Jagiellonian University Student Research Group (since 2015) and has served on multiple academic committees at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (2020–24, 2024–28). Awards include the Medal of the National Education Commission (2017).