Art, Science & Business Symposium: The “Project“. On the attraction of event form in science, business and art.

In the past years, the word “project” has developed, incidentally and simultaneously as a matter of course, into a central concept of our times. What sort of promises for the future do these inconspicuous words hold that so many conversations revolve around the (unspoken) demand “Tell me about your projects”? Having a high number and broad scope of new projects seems to have developed into its own currency. Whoever doesn’t have one doesn’t count, or has nothing to tell. During the symposium, experts from science, art and business areas will come together with the goal of exploring these powerful “events” or “projects” based on historical and current examples by inquiring into their principle functions.

The symposium was initiated by Markus Krajewski, Scientist, Researcher, and Chair of the department of History and Theory of Technical Culture at the Bauhaus University, Weimar. He was an art, science & business program fellow in 2004-5.

For more information and registration contact Catharina Märklin; cm@akademie-solitude.de
Tel. 0711-99619-134

The art, science & business program is made possible by the financial support of the State Foundation of Baden-Württenberg, the city of Stuttgart as well as the LBBW Foundation for Art and Culture.

Program
Thursday, November 9, 2006

8.00 pm Introduction by Jean-Baptiste Joly

Panel discussion with Jürgen Kaube (F.A.Z., Frankfurt am Main), Stephan Schlak (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Janek Müller (Theaterhaus Weimar), moderated by Markus Krajewski (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)

Friday, November 10, 2006

I. Section
9.30 – 10.30 am »A true project – Zum Möglichkeitsdenken barocker Projektemacher«
Jan Lazardzig (Freie Universität Berlin)

10.30 – 11.30 am »Zustände höherer Ordnung. Technische Großprojekte als Weltentwürfe«
Dirk van Laak (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

11.30 am Coffee/Tea

12.00 – 1.00 pm »Die Welt aus Eis. Hörbigers Glazialkosmologie als Projekt und Archiv«
Christina Wessely (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin)

1.00 pm Lunch

II. Section
2.30 – 3.30 pm »Selbstbeauftragung | Meta-Ökonomie«
Christian Reder (Universität für angewandte Kunst, Wien)

3.30 pm Coffee/Tea

4.00 – 5.00 pm »Projekte im Alltag«
Helmut Höge, (die tageszeitung, Berlin)

Saturday, November 11, 2006

III. Section
9.30 – 11.00 am »Kick Off Situation«
Stefan Heidenreich (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Tom Lamberty (Merve Verlag, Berlin)

11.00 am Coffee/Tea

11.30 am – 12.30 pm »One Step Beyond – Wiederbegegnung mit der Mine. Aufbau- und Strukturprobleme eines künstlerischen Projektes.
Lukas Einsele, artist

12.30 – 1.30 pm »I-TASC: Universal Interface as Structure and System«
(in English)
Thomas Mulcaire, artist and Marko Peljhan, artist

1.30 Uhr Closing discussion