| Due to the dedication of CityDynamiek Eindhoven, from November, 6th to 15th, 2009, the city center of Eindhoven turns again into a forum of interventions, installations, performances and events based on the phenomena of artificial light. The democratic culture considers the public spheres as the sources for the democratic process within a society. Publics are created by meeting and inter-acting of individuals in interest- or expertise-driven communities. Their agreements and conventions, assemblies and representation systems produce the public organism in which we live. „Being public“ is the subject of GLOW 2009 focusing - in the choice of artists and designers, parcours, locations and works - on the changing qualities of public spheres. Embodiment of the public spheres is urban public space as an open space without any access restrictions and as the space of open discourses and free shaping of collective opinions. Observing the ongoing changes in appearance and meanings of public space, gazes are directed to the fragile individual bonds to geographic locations and communities, to the segmentation of the public space by its commercialized use and to the missing link between urban planning and citizen interests. Present is a need for discussion and action, which is essential for the sustainable progress of democratic culture. To generate a public for these questions GLOW 2009 is an open source for collective experiences and a platform for shared discussions about present and future qualities, including their responsibilities and challenges. 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. 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. are the participants of the exhibition program. In addition to the GLOW exhibition program several cultural institutions add to the GLOW program: 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. 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. “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. 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. 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. 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 The project ACCESS from Marie Sester, located in the hall of the Central Station is interactive. That means that you are invited to drive the spot in the hall of the station. In the onsite installation at the hall of Eindhoven’s main station, individual pedestrians are tracked and put on the spot by you. The tracked individual does not know who is watching them or why they are being tracked. Interact with ACCESS in real-time and click
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