This volume is based on the premise that entanglements between current societal, political, technological,
ecological, and cultural transformations cannot be sufficiently understood without transforming the modes, forms, and notions
of understanding. Conceptually, "uncertain curiosity" is inspired by Helga Nowotny’s Insatiable Curiosity, as it
maps trends in the history of knowledge on creative curiosity and its shifting relation to innovation-promoting institutions
and societal notions of un/certain and un/predictable futures.
The book explores epistemic, infrastructural,
and cosmological conditions under which the curiosity drive can flourish. Adopting an encyclopedic structure, the contributions
engage with terminologies that echo transformation processes and conditions of change by foregrounding the ephemeral, the
processual, and the desynchronous and address issues of insurability, vagueness, and ambiguity. This is achieved through a
blend of case study research, critical terminological work, poetic engagement with language, and visual culture and discourse
analysis through the lenses of artistic research, philosophy, media and cultural studies.
Contributing Authors:
Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond, Jens Badura, Kathrin Busch, Ann Cotten, Alexander Damianisch, Nausikaä El-Mecky, Nikolaus
Gansterer, Ana Hoffner, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Claudia Larcher, Micha Payer and Martin Gabriel, Michael Richardson, Karl
Salzmann, Lisa Stuckey, Dénètem Touam Bona, Jordan Troeller, Pedro J S Vieira de Oliveira, and Perry Zurn
Lisa
Stuckey, Institute of Arts and Society, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Alexander Damianisch,
Support Art and Research, University of Applied Arts Vienna
