Some 35 light artworks will be on show at sites throughout Eindhoven's city center from November 11 through 18. TU/e is chiefly involved with Moving Light, on show near the Student Hotel. Designer Philip Ross, owner of the eponymous design studio, and who gained his PhD at TU/e and used to work here, is working for the project together with people from the university and Philips.

Enthusiastically, Ross talks about the artwork, an installation no less than 6 meters high, 6 meters wide and 23 meters long, and through which GLOW-goers can walk. Above them will hang a geometric figure - consisting of 112 LED strips holding in total 3,360 multicolored LEDs - that lights up in different ways when people jump or move about in some other distinctive way. “This means that by moving around visitors can make their own light composition.”

Scientific findings

For the makers, this isn't only about creating a beautiful spectacle during GLOW; with Moving Light they hope to learn more about how people behave, or quite literally move, when under the influence of light. For a previous year's GLOW, designer Ross created, together with Indre Kalinauskaite of the TU/e Intelligent Lighting Institute, the installation ‘Lux Agitat Molem’, a dynamic light installation with subtlely changing forms and accents.

According to Ross, a great many visitors interacted with the light “or were seemingly unaware of how they were drawn to it”. A similar light experiment took place during GLOW 2016 in the market hall in MetaForum. “And there the first data analyses were shown live on screens.” The scientific findings can, he believes, help us devise new light applications.