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Its GLOW time! Every November Eindhoven becomes the top Light location. Each year we think we saw it all, and each year it surprises us! The theme of 2019: Living Colors!

The GLOW route is 5 km long with 33 light art projects!

Projects divided in 4 different groups:

1. Head light – big projects, public favorites (purple on the glow map)

2. New light – new developments, will be presented for the first time. (blue on the glow map)

3. Artistic light – a​rt-related projects (black on the glow map)

4. Green light – social, sustainable projects (green on the glow map)

So first light installation that i saw this year was these sunflowers! There were growing just in the middle of the city! How cute!

SUNFLOWERS FOR VAN GOGH

This light artwork is a homage to Vincent van Gogh, who painted 69 sunflowers during his time in Arles France. It seems like we are looking at a painting of him. The Installation made from traditional Chinese lanterns. Amplified by the sound of crickets and swallows, we feel surrounded by French fields.

This work came about through a collaboration between the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam and Van Gogh Brabant. It will be exhibited in January in China and will then return to the Netherlands to be exhibited next to the Van Gogh Museum on the Museumplein. The designer was graduated from Eindhoven Design Academy and also exhibited last year.

TRIPTYCH METAPHOR (by OCUBO – specializes in multimedia and large format projection video mapping. The content ranges from historical to contemporary styles, mixing all kinds of media, from photos and illustrations to HD video, 3D animation and even interactive programming.)

The triptych that exhibits the metaphors HEART, LIGHT and TIME in three locations.

1) Heart – At the façade of the church where stories about love, sin and desire are stored and are now shown by the church as the storyteller.

2) Light – at the courtyard. The light through the stained glass accommodates a small chapel that used to be on the second floor. This dynamic, between the original purpose of the building and the current architecture, represents our inner beliefs. What we carry with us is now revealed, in the form of light. The three symmetrical door and window compositions symbolise that anything is possible in life.

The Shylight installation inside of the church on the opening of Domusdela on the 8th of November.

3) Time – The installation depicts the continuous change of time in an abstract field of colour. The building’s stairwell is transformed into an artwork, inspired by the horizontal stripes in the paintings by the abstract expressionist Mark Rothko. Continually changing, just like time that never repeats itself.

The triptych is about how a heart that challenged love and passion, nourishes our inner light and ultimately leads us to believe that this is what guides us through life.

RUTHLESS INNOVATING PLANET

Through the object, students of Fontys want to stimulate GLOW visitors to consider the price we pay for our wealth and the ever-growing economy by telling the story of our misuse of energy.

HYPAR

Made by TU/e students who represented “Loop” last year. The installation is luminium cubes that together form a hyperbolic paraboloid. Their organic pattern is representing ‘nature and technology’, to work in perfect harmony. And it makes a sound as if purring like a cat.

DIVING IN THE SEA OF COLORS – In 3 places of the route we find ourselves in a surreal world, you can feel the influence and fusion with color. It’s hard to believe that it’s not painted, especially on the roads.

METROPOLIGHT

Do you want to know how the city responds to you? Through the use of Kinects, the visitors’ silhouettes are measured and shown on the Eindhoven skyline. The projection of the silhouettes reveals the colours of the buildings. When multiple people gather, short animations appear. Created by students at SintLucas. And this is my silhouette in the city.

OPEN MINDED

Collaboration with street artists from Studio Giftig, that we know very well in Eindhoven. This is a huge mural painting is constantly changing its appearance. Using light, they achieved this effect when putting glasses on with a red and blue filter, the picture changes.

(1) MINDSETS

You can check Van Abbemuseum and see a very cool geometric, ‘living’ sculptures on the pond. They appear and disappear in the water. Then in the heart of the museum, we will find ourselves in the midst of the natural phenomenon the Northern lights. Then we leave the museum through a powerful rising sun. Last year designer created blue light (Pulman hotel) that was seen from cosmos i bet!

(2) CURSOR Look up! Can you see the stars and the moon tonight? Nature is the source of all Living Colours. The sky can provide an exceptional spectacle of refraction, absorption and dispersion. Unfortunately, we no longer look up; the digital screen forces us to look down more often. Despite all the possibilities that it offers, it shrinks our view of the real world. Light artist Ivo Schoofs draws attention with humour and appeals to everyone to look up at the beauty of the sky more often. The most impressive screensaver is hanging above your head.

FLORAL FLOW – inspired by climate change and the reinstatement of our ecosystem, wants to give the issue a positive vibe. They invite GLOW visitors to help pump enough water and light to the flowers … for an unexpected surprise!

PING In the distant past, primitive means like smoke signals, drums and fire beacons were used on mountain tops to transmit messages. The light artwork is a reference to this. Light and sound are communicated using modern technology, from one beacon to the next, until the message has reached the end of the line.

UN-RETAINED – a poetic visual story that brings silence into an overwhelming world, lets us forget time, space and gravity; it slows our heartbeat.

FREE COLOR

This year we celebrate that the city was liberated 75 years ago. Lichtjesroute is an important part of the city’s heritage and is the ultimate symbol of freedom. Originating from 1945, the year after liberation, to mark the return of light in the life following the dark days of occupation.

VENTOSELAAN

Soundscapes, ink drawings and light projections form an organic whole. Meditative installations take on different forms at each location and in no way represent pre-elaborated concepts. They are like life itself: ambiguous and constantly in motion.

COLOUR SYMPHONY

We were amazed by Blob in 2017 and Lichttoren in 2018 now is time for De Witte Dame. It has a perfect facade too: big, severe and completely white. Where since 1931 light was experimented with. Just like a blank sheet that challenges light designers to add a composition with colour, movement and music. Once again light is experimented with.

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED

What does it take to make you feel relaxed in a public area? Have your fine moments of peace and quiet.

(1) ELEMENTAL FUSION – is all about the tension between the primary colours. Last year, they won the Foederer Talent Award and were able to present their idea on the facade of ​The Student Hotel.

(2-3) WINDOWS OF LIGHT

The illuminated image of ‘Living Colours’ creates an illusion of ever-changing ‘windows’ with varying depth. It is a three-dimensional installation comprising three layers and inspired by a wall filled with windows.

(4) PANIC AT THE DISCO

The project is based on a eureka experience during a party where a little plastic disco lamp accidentally slipped off a table and started to follow its own path. ‘Panic at the disco’ is also a protest against overconsumption and the plastification of our society. They are the balls from the plastic soup that seek revenge. It’s time to panic.

(1-2) LUMIÈRE TANGO

48 beams of light perform a monumental round dance to a tango composition by Astor Piazolla. Even though the choreography is not danced by people, this marvellous spectacle is performed as carefully as if there were professional dancers.

(3) SINK

An audio-visual installation at the former V&D (now Warehouse of Innovation) is designed to resonate with the architecture of the space. At the heart of this installation, which spans the entire ground floor of the former department store, electronic live artists perform together with light artists, creating a powerful synergy.

Other locations that i liked but didn’t take photos:

CONTOUR

This glass wall is an artwork in itself, many rhombuses. Or diamonds, a shape like this can found in the natural world. This is where the idea of working with the perimeter in place of the surface occurred. The artist creates an image on the outside edge. Particularly impressed with welding and rain.

MOONLIGHT

A light show based on musical communication between planet earth and the moon. Using “Moonbounce”, also known as Earth-Moon-Earth communication, radio signals from a radio telescope are sent to the moon. In relation to this year’s theme “Living Colours” tones are added to the radio signal, inspired by the famous melody from the film ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ (Steven Spielberg, 1977).

TRANSIENCE MACHINE AT KAZERNE

Through designer fascination with rainbows, the designer started experimenting with prisms. When daylight shines through a triangular prism, light is split into all its spectral components; the colours of the rainbow. His design process was focused on finding the best possible way to display this colourful spectrum. Through allowing the prism to rotate, the colours come to life. This light installation is one of Nando Dolleman’s graduation projects for the Design Academy Eindhoven

Light show NOVITER

For this third edition at the Philips Stadium, they return to what they started with: Light. Music. Performance. Classic. Light show NOVITER (from Latin – again) represents the ultimate of what humankind and technology have to offer in the field of music and light.