Andi Schoon

Andi Schoon (* 1974 ) is a German cultural scientist and author . He heads the Y Institute at the Bern University of the Arts , where he is professor of cultural and media studies.

Life

Andi Schoon attended the Ulricianum grammar school in Aurich . He studied systematic musicology , modern German literature and sociology in Hamburg. He received his doctorate in 2005 and then taught at the University of Hamburg . He has been working at the Bern University of the Arts since 2007, and has been a professor since 2012. Together with the Swiss literary scholar Thomas Strässle , Andi Schoon heads the transdisciplinary Y Institute with the Masters course in Contemporary Arts Practice.

Guest lectureships and research stays, etc. a. at Tongji University Shanghai, University of Copenhagen, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Institute for Moroccan Studies Tangier and Istituto Svizzero di Roma.

His book “The Order of Sounds” received an award at Ars Electronica in 2009 as part of the Media.Art.Research Award.

From 1996 to 2006 Schoon was a member of the band Jullander and worked as a freelance journalist (including for the daily newspaper , Spex and Die Zeit ). In the spring of 2018, his debut short story "Die Schwache Voice" was published.

Andi Schoon is married to the journalist and musician Sandra Zettpunkt .

Publications

The order of the sounds. The interplay of the arts from Bauhaus to Black Mountain College. Transcript, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 978-3-89942-450-8 .
The trained ear. A cultural history of sonification. Edited with Axel Volmar. Transcript Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-2049-8 .
subject imaginaire. A figure design. eBook, Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-88221-415-4 .
The weak voice. Textem Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86485-189-6 .

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SURNAME	Schoon, Andi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German cultural scientist, musician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	1974