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The GLOW is a light and color festival held every autumn in the Dutch city Eindhoven. Artists and designers from home and abroad present light art and design applications by using new media technologies, such as computers, sensors, animations, and also the well-known projection techniques.
The GLOW was held for the first time in 2006. The festival is an outdoor exhibition that typical buildings and locations are lighted up with artificial lights. During the festival artworks can be seen in the city and on the banks of the Dommel. The festival route changes every year to give attention to different areas and neighborhoods of Eindhoven.
GLOW-Next is a separate zone in the Strijp-S area, meant to keep experimentation with light part of the festival. It is all about brand new projects that are exhibited for the first time. In Eindhoven, engineers, designers, scientists and artists work together to create innovative light concepts and -techniques as well as new insights. In 2016, for the first time these projects are exhibited at the Eindhoven University of Technology campus for celebrating the 60th anniversary of its founding.
Due to the Incandescent light bulb production by Philips in Eindhoven, the city has always had something to do with light. The city also have a strong presence of local developments and lighting research, including De-Escalate, a laboratory that is a collaboration of the Intelligent Lighting Institute and the Technical University. Eindhoven is also known as the city of lights.