GLOW – International Forum of Light in Art and Architecture

Eindhoven 2009 - Title: "Being Public" - (web: Glow Eindhoven).
Curated by Bettina Pelz and Tom Groll

Project: "Text Portrait MISSING"
Location: "De Bijenkorf"

Ralph Ueltzhoeffer’s artistic research is dedicated to the relationship of visual and written information in the digital sphere and their relevance for the beliefs one produces from these data. His search for new forms synchronizing visual and written information reacts and reflects on the internet as an open and central source of information in times of globalization and digitalization of data. In the synopses of visible and readable information he engenders visuals which require new perceptional approaches. In the “Text Portraits” images and words are equally used to generate a portrait, understood as the visual representation of an individual.

On display during GLOW are portraits for which Ralph Ueltzhoeffer has taken photographic portraits of randomly chosen citizens of Eindhoven. Combining the miscellaneous digital information he composes portraits using the word ”missing” referring to the trait of human cognition to hide daily routine perceptions in “blind spots”.

The Locations 2009: Public Sphere
The GLOW parcours stretches from the campus of the University of Technology to the TD Gebouw. Chosen locations are the market- and other urban squares, some public gardens like in “Smalle Haven”, some links between different parts of the city like the Dommel underpass at “Stationsweg”, event and meeting places like the “Muziekcentrum Fritz Philips” and the “Effenaar”, hot spots of the creative industries like the “Designhuis”, the city hall and further administration building like the “De Hooghuis”, the church St. Catharinakerk and the cemetery “St. Catharina Kerkhof”, the hub of public transportation “Eindhovens station” and some parking garages, shopping malls like “De Bijenkorf” and the regional newspaper “Eindhovens Dagblatt”, urban vacancies and wastelands. In their appearance, their function or their meaning they all link to various aspects of the public spheres and provide the framework for the GLOW interventions and installations.

The Participants 2009: Artists and Designers
Artists and designers from Australia, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Poland, Canada, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA are invited to be part of GLOW 2009. Apparati Effimeri, Siegrun Appelt, Armsrock, Artificiel, Rebecca Belmore, Marnix de Nijs, Eva-Maria Joeressen I Klaus Kessner, Vollrad Kutscher, Mary-Anne Kyriakou I Su-Wen Leong, Dominik Lejman, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Holger Mader I Alexander Stublic I Heike Wiermann, Geert Mul, Michael Najjar, Kai Piippo, Daniel Schlaepfer, Marie Sester, Max Sudhues, Ralph Ueltzhoeffer, Berry van Egten are the participants of the exhibition program.

Co-operations 2009
In addition to the GLOW exhibition program several cultural institutions add to the GLOW program:

Centrum Kunstlicht in de Kunst
Centrum Kunstlicht in de Kunst hosts light-based art works of the S.M.A.K Ghent during GLOW. Headed “Change of the Century” works of Dirk Braeckman, Jacques Charlier, Dan Flavin, Anna Lange, Bruce Naumann and Joëlle Tuerlinckx are shown.

Design Academy Eindhoven
Faiz Bin Zohri, Arine van Tol and Kasia Zareba and Philip van Hirtum are the awardees of this years’ GLOW students’ competition and they will realize their project ideas during GLOW.

University of the Arts Bremen
“Dämmstoffmafia” is an inter-disciplinary team of students of the master programs “Integrated Design” and “Digital Media” who put their small editions of unique products on display.

GLOW Light Lab
For the first time an exchange program of the Art Academy Ekatrinenburg, Higher Institute of Artistic Industry, Industrial Design, Graphic Design and Multimedia Florence, University of the Arts Bremen and Design Academy Eindhoven will be realized during GLOW. Aleksandra Stratimirovic, Kurt Laurenz Theinert and Berry van Egten will be the workshop teachers introducing the international teams to the basics of the reflected use of artificial light in public space.

Leading in Creativity
Artificial light was is one of the profiling anchor points of the Eindhoven’s image ever since the first industrial manufactured light bulb was produced here by Philips in 1891. The city’s development was and is closely connected to technological developments and their industries. After three years GLOW works as a point of crystallization in the city and a point of reference for the images of the city.

Route: The GLOW route starts at the church St. Catharina and goes by the Catharinaplein, the Karel Vermeerenplantsoen, Markt, Vestdijk, Kanaalstraat, Dommel, Dommelstraat, Stationsweg, Kennedyplein, 18 septemberplein, Nieuwe Emmasingel, Emmasingel, Kleine Berg, Bergstraat, Grote Berg, Paradijslaan, Frederik van Eedenplein to close the route at the Stadhuisplein. Go to the map

Opening hours
Sunday till thursday from 18:00 till 23:00 hrs.
Friday and Saturday from 18:00 till 00:00 hrs.