Jan-Peter E. R. Sonntag
Since 1989 Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag (born 1965 in Lübeck) has mostly been working on site-specific installations based on sound and bio mass but also specifically on monochrome gas discharge light which he developed in his own lab in cooperation with light companies. Sonntag has an academic background in instrumental music, fine art, art history (new media), music theory, composition, philosophy and cognitive science which he studied at various universities with the following teachers: Rudolf zur Lippe, Ivan Illich, Umberto Maturana, J.P.S. Uberoi, Gertrud Meyer-Denkmann, Gustavo Becerra Schmidt. Worksshops u.a. bei V. Globokar, J. Cage, A. Lucier. Since the mid 1990s he has gained a number of grants and prizes, collaborated on performances for instance with Franz Erhard Walther, worked as a curator (for Stiftung Weimarer Klassik) as well as co-founded artist groups like "unerhört" (Bremerhaven) and "oh ton" (Oldenburg). In 1991 Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag founded the small press Edition HORCH together with Jens P. Carstensen. In 1998 he was the assistant of Maurizio Kagel and also co-founded hARTware Projekte (Dortmund). In 2008 Sonntag was awarded the Capital Cultural Fond Berlin for /e-topia/, the German Sound Art Prize as well as the CYNETart Award. The performance of his work /sonArc::ema/ was played at the opening ceremony of last year's ars electronica in Linz.
