Art, Science and Business – An interdisciplinary dialogue

Date: Octo­ber 12, 2010
Time: 5 pm — 6:30 pm
Loca­tion: Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa, Des­marais Build­ing, 12th floor, Room 110

One of Europe’s great­est artis­tic institutions, the Akademie Schloss Soli­tude in Stuttgar­tis a pub­lic foun­da­tion that seeks to pro­mote and fund young artists through inter­na­tional res­i­dence fel­low­ships and by orga­niz­ing pub­lic per­for­mances, read­ings, con­certs and exhi­bi­tions by its residents. Since 1990, the Akademie has hosted more than 900 cre­ators from all artis­tic dis­ci­plines (visual arts, lit­er­a­ture, music, video/new media, per­form­ing arts, design and archi­tec­ture) from over 90 dif­fer­ent coun­tries. Since 2002, the Akademie has also wel­comed res­i­dents from the fields of sci­ence, human­i­ties and eco­nom­ics to par­tic­i­pate in the­matic pro­grams which focus on cur­rent issues and call for an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary approach. Some of the top­ics cov­ered dur­ing the past few years include: “Fetish and Con­sump­tion”, “Deal­ing with Fear” and cur­rently, “Design of the (In-) Human”. This pre­sen­ta­tion will pro­vide an overview of the Akademie’s var­i­ous projects so that the audi­ence can grasp both the strate­gic issues and dif­fi­cul­ties it faces in cre­at­ing an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary dialogue.

Speaker: Jean-Baptiste Joly, director, Akademie Schloss Solitude

Born in Paris, France, Jean-Baptiste Joly is the chair­man of the Board of the Foun­da­tion Akademie Schloss Soli­tude and found­ing direc­tor and artis­tic direc­tor of the Akademie. After study­ing Ger­man lit­er­a­ture and lan­guage in Paris and Berlin, Joly worked as a teacher in France. In 1983, he was appointed direc­tor of the French Cul­tural Insti­tute in Stuttgart, a posi­tion he held until join­ing the Akademie in 1989. Joly is an hon­orary pro­fes­sor at the Kun­sthochschule Weißensee, Col­lege of Art and Design in Berlin. He is also actively involved as a mem­ber of the Board of Trustees of the Schader Foun­da­tion, mem­ber of the Board of Trustees of the Kun­st­mu­seum Stuttgart, mem­ber of the Advi­sory Board of Tran­scul­tural Exchange in Boston and mem­ber of the French-German Coun­cil for Culture.