ABOUT JOLT ARTS INC.

"to provide opportunities for musicians and artists to contribute to the development of Australian culture through participation in high calibre cutting edge sonic and visual arts performance based projects artistically directed by James Hullick."

JOLT Arts Inc., artistically directed by sonic and visual artist JAMES HULLICK, provides an event management structure for many artists delivering innovative high class public arts outcomes. In 2007, the JOLT concert projects provided employment to over thirty sonic and visual artists involving performances here and overseas. The success of these projects was the birth place of JOLTArts Inc. in 2008. JOLT Inc. is a not for profit organisation whose core business is "cutting edge sonic and visual art presentation." JOLT is governed by a top class Board of Management, with the Chair being Jim Maitland Hullick OAM - former head of the Local Governments Association in SA (father to James) - and Vice-Chair being Danielle Evans - currently a Senior Lawyer with the Australian Communications and Media Authority. JOLT's Board work for JOLT on a volunteer basis, and it is this spirit of community contribution that is s treasured at JOLT. While JOLT is still a young organisation, projects have been managed in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Cologne, Switzerland and New York. These outcomes point to an organisation that seeks to deliver exciting contemporary arts projects in many contexts, and an organisation that is able to maintain balance whilst in flux.

Currently, JOLT is focused on developing repertoire shows such as JOLT's multimedia show THE NIS which seek to push the boundaries of technology in the arts in ways that arerelevantto contemporary communities.

HUBS: MELBOURNE

2010 will see the launching of JOLT's international offices which we at JOLT refer to as HUBS. The development of international HUBS has seen a shift in JOLT's organisational structure, with JOLT's Melbourne HUB being a 'Home Office' that is responsible for co-ordinating all other HUBS. Every JOLT HUB has it's own Artistic Director, and Hullick (who is Artistic Director for the Melbourne HUB), is responsible for overseeing the activities of JOLT's other Artistic Directors. Each Artistic Director has a large amount of curatorial and administrative control over their specific HUB.

Throughout 2009 information regarding these HUBS will be added to this site. HUBS for SWITZERLAND and THAILAND have already been announced, and we gratefully welcome the new Artistic Directors for these countries: DANIEL BUESS (SWITZERLAND) and PRAPON KUMJIM with PAWIT MAHASARINAND (THAILAND).

JOLT BOARD OF MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

PRESIDENT: JIM HULLICK OAM (father to James Hullick)

Jim Hullick has had a career spanning local government, teaching, aboriginal affairs and business. After 20 years as Secretary General of Local Government in South Australia, he retired in 1997 to run his own consulting and speaking business, Jim Hullick & Associates Pty Ltd.

Jim's career has been characterised by innovation and reform. He played a major part in building the Local Government Association and supporting bodies into public enterprises with assets totalling many millions of dollars. This work has received international recognition and many of the enterprises Jim developed have been used as models of excellence by Local Government in Australia and overseas. The Australian Government awarded Jim the Order of Australia Medal in 1991 for his services to Local Government and Aboriginal Affairs.

Jim takes a keen interest in questions of regional development, urban management and governance. His consulting work in recent years has been wide ranging covering enterprise in Australia and overseas. His business covers urban and regional management, Murray Darling Basin management, risk management and interfacing business with government. Jim provides coaching for leaders seeking success.

Jim is a past member of the Committee of the Australia Day Council of South Australia, Past President of the Advisory Council of Onkaparinga TAFE, member of the Board of TAFE SA and Chair of the State TAFE Repositioning Committee. He is a Board member of the Murray Darling Association and Chair of the SA Government Ministerial Integrated Radio Network Ministerial Advisory Committee. He also lectured in an adjunct position in the Planning Department of the University of South Australia.

He maintains a lively interest in the arts, current affairs, geo-politics, inter-governmental relations and cultural diversity. Jim is married to Louise and has four children and six grand children.

VICE PRESIDENT: Danielle Evans

Danielle is currently employed as a senior lawyer at the Australian Communications and Media Authority. Danielle has sat on several arts boards. She was a board member for Westspace Gallery, prior to her current roles on Bus Gallery's board and the board of JOLT.

SECRETARY: Nikki Zerella

Nikki Zerella commenced as FCAC's ArtLife and Art Day West Coordintor in January 2007. She first worked in community-based art as a Recreation Officer at Minda, an organisation that provides recreation, vocational and accommodation options for people with intellectual disabilities. As part of this position, she was Coordinator of the then Holdfast Community Choir. She was instrumental in further developing the choir which in 2001 incorporated to become Tutti Ensemble. In 2004, she co-founded and managed Tutti Arts, a vocational option for people with disabilities. Tutti Arts was developed as a joint initiative between Minda and Tutti, an esteemed South Australian socially inclusive arts organisation. She has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Recreation Planning and Management from the University of South Australia.

Jerome Haoust TREASURER: Dr. Jerome Victor Haoust

Jerome is a medical doctor who is completing a Masters of Technology this year at RMIT. He has been involved in the Melbourne live band scene for 14 years as a musician, event programmer (Melbourne Metro), audio engineer and has released independent recordings in Australia and Europe. Jerome has experience with radio as a presenter on 3RRR and is involved with a family business in the bus transport industry as an IT consultant.

Jim McDonald MEMBER: James Peter McDonald

James is in the process of completing his articles and will be admitted as a solicitor of the Victorian Supreme Court in November of this year. James has been part of the Melbourne band scene for close to 14 years and he has released independent recordings in Australia, United States and Europe. James has also been involved in Melbourne Fringe Theatre for a number of years recently being a member of Fiasco Practice Theatre Company who were winners of the Prestigious Blue Room award in 2005 for their piece "The Art and Death Trilogy". James hopes to bring his experience as a musician and theatre practitioner, alongside his recently attained legal skills, to his role as a Board member of JOLT.

MEMBER: Chloe Duncan

Chloe currently works for the State Government in Policy development.

THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: MELBOURNE HUB (HOME OFFICE)

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: James Hullick

In his role as Artistic Director of JOLT's home office in Melbourne, Hullick is responsible for devising and directing JOLT projects, seeking out talented and hard working artists, co-ordinating the international JOLT HUBS and most of the day to day administration of JOLT. Hullick, who started JOLT, is supported administratively by the JOLT board during the busy periods of the calendar year. Hullick is often involved as an artist in JOLT projects and this is why JOLT is essentially an artist run organisation. More information about Hullick can be seen by clicking the link here to : www.jameshullick.com

Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License.