sonArc:project

Compendium piece to Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag's multidisciplinary sonArc::project. Besides documentation of his installations the book mainly consists of a collection of German essays by Wolfgang Hagen, Friedrich Kittler, Verena Kuni and others, that were part of the “electric salons” at tesla-Berlin in 2007. The salons were titled “domesticated lightning” and brought together scientists, media theorists and engineers. The essays deal with the nature of electricity and its impact on media, art, music, philosophy, communication ... They trace the history of electricity and focus on the romantic, haunted and strange, early instruments, ghost detectors, philosophical toys.

I could have done without the experimental layout of interlacing the essays across the pages.