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source: v2nl

Since the 1990s, Jan-Peter E. R. Sonntag, whose artistic roots reach back to the minimal- and concept art as well as to the so-called new and experimental music, has repeatedly cooperated with scientific laboratories. Alongside the examination of human perception, the question at the centre of his artistic work concerns the visions of modernity – an unfinished project.
He studied fine arts, art history, music theory, composition, philosophy and cognitive science and, in 2002, founded N-solab. He is a cofounder of hARTware-projects / HMKV, oh Ton, unerhört and the sound-art-edition HORCH. He received several grants and participations in international exhibitions. In 2008 he was awarded the German Sound Art Prize, the Cynet Art Award and he opened the Ars Electronica in Linz with his sonArc::project – which ended in a book and DVD about the essence of electricity and modulating high voltage plasma in 2009. In 2010 his works will be shown, among others, at the International Biennale for Light Art in Ruhr 2010; NIMKs; Amsterdam; Aram Art Gallery der Gioyng Cultural Foundation, Seoul; Center for Contemporary Art , Torun.
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source: villa-auroraorg

Since 1988 Sonntag’s works have been shown on exhibitions and he has received numerous stipends for fine arts, sound art and composition. Equally, he won awards in various fields, such as art history, composition, sound art or contemporary music improvisation. His work encompasses art, science, and technology, of which he believes “there is no in between.” He experiments with sound, light and image, developing non-traditional means to experience the natural world. His experiments attempt to render space beyond the projection of the visual, incorporating a psycho-acoustic medium to produce an environment. During his stay at Villa Aurora, Sonntag plans to work on a video/sound composition, that refers directly to the Villa by using the domestic organ as acoustic basis. Also, Sonntag wants to get on with his large-scale project “C-plexus solaris”, which deals with the approaching geomagnetic storm in 2012/13 and the development of electronic media in the 19th century by attempting to understand northern lights in laboratories.
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source: transmedialede

Seit 1989 arbeitet Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag (* 1965 in Lübeck) in seinen zumeist raumbezogenen Installationen neben Schall und Biomasse mit meist monochromen Gasentladungslicht, das er zusammen mit Lichtfirmen und seinem eigenem Lab entwickelte. Neben einem Instrumentalstudium and der Lübecker Musikhochschule, studierte Sonntag in den 1980ern zudem bildenden Kunst, Kunstgeschichte (Neue Medien), Musikwissenschaft, Komposition, Philosophie und Kognitions- wissenschaften u.a. bei 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. Seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre erhielt Sonntag eine Reihe internationaler Preise und Stipendien für seine Performanceprojekte (u.A. mit Franz Erhard Walther). Sonntag ist Gründungsmitglied von “unerhört” (Bremerhaven) und “oh ton” (Oldenburg), hARTware Projekte (Dortmund, 1998) sowie Gründer des Verlags Edition HORCH zusammen mit Jens P. Carstensen (1991). Zwischen 1993-1995 war er Kurator bei der Stiftung Weimarer Klassik und 1998 Assistent bei Mauricio Kagel. 2008 erhielt Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag neben einer Hauptstadtkulturfond-Förderung für “e-topia”, den Deutschen Klangkunst-Preis sowie den CYNETart-Award und eröffnete mit sonArc::ema die ars electronica, Linz.