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
