Konrad Wojnowski is an Assistant Professor of Performativity Studies at Jagiellonian University in Poland. His research encompasses performativity theory, philosophy of communication, and the impact of media and technology on culture, with a recent focus on the intersections of aesthetics and epistemology. He is the author of two books in Polish: The Aesthetics of Disturbance (Księgarnia Akademicka, 2012), a study of Michael Haneke’s cinema, and Useful Disasters (Universitas, 2016), which explores the performative power of catastrophes in contemporary network culture. His publications span numerous Polish and English-language scientific journals, and he has led two research projects funded by Poland’s National Science Centre, receiving the Foundation for Polish Science’s prize for outstanding young scholars.
In his latest book, Probabilistic Aesthetics of the Avant-Gardes, Wojnowski examines how the probabilistic revolution, though extensively explored by historians of science, remains largely neglected in art studies. He reveals how avant-garde artists in Europe and North America incorporated shifting probabilities to comprehend reality, establishing a unique dialogue between scientific and artistic forms of knowledge—an approach that resonates in today’s age of probabilistic AIs and the reconceptualization of cognition itself as probabilistic.
Currently, Wojnowski is developing Finite Capacity Based System, new mathematical system that critiques the Matrix paradigm, aiming to redefine foundational assumptions about infinity in mathematics and offering a philosophical response to the mechanistic structures underpinning modern society.