Interview What was the first art/design/architecture work that impressed you? The Vitra fire station by Zaha Hadid at Weil am Rhein and the uncompleted structures of the Guggenheim museum by Frank Gehry in Bilbao How do you reflect on light as a material or media in your work? My works with light are mostly inspired by darkness, as the absence of light. I am interested in the human perception patterns of visual phenomena and their limits. A good example is the installation I did for the Loreley rocks in the middle of the Rhine valley which was realized in April 2008. What was the guiding interest in your conceptual approach of your work which we will see during GLOW? ... to start a visual dialog with the architecture of the “Lichttoren” and to produce lighting patterns to use the existing architecture as sculptural material. I wish to create awareness of the entire space using graphical codes which correspond to the former use of the building as “light-making factory”. What made it interesting to work in Eindhoven? “Lichttoren” is a landmark of the city of Eindhoven, it’s like an light house which lost its function. I was the testing laboratory of the light sources, an architectural environment all the time filled with light. Very close to here the old Philips factory is located where the first industrial manufactured light bulbs in Europe had been produced. And as a personal reference: my mother’s family name is “Göbel” like the inventor of the light bulb. What kind of respond do you whish (expect) from the audience? To take their time to enter in the graphical optical labyrinth and to follow the text and sign fragments, to search in the sky for the light – to calm down and use the surface of projection as mental projection space of ideas and thoughts. Anything else you would like to mention? I´m curios abut the GLOW parcours throughout Eindhoven, of course the projects of the other participants and the encounters and talks.