Glow 2021 Preview: TU Eindhoven Ignites the dance

A light beams that comes to meet you and then invites you to dance. To some extent it is an extension of Philips Ross' Gibson installation on the Stadhuisplein, but this time, Team Ignite goes much further. The light beam is really interactive and predictive it anticipates your moves and at the same time leads you into a dance. Is it the rotation of the light? Is it the light-footed motion of the swirling beam?

What intrigued our reporter Jean-Paul Linnartz most is that there is in fact a fundamental mathematical concept behind it, one that is notoriously hard to explain to students. It is known as a Kalman filter. Boring or hard to grasp in math classes, but at GLOW it is taken a little “out of control” with a setting that are suddenly is inviting to dance.

Jean-Paul Linnartz interviewed Tim de Jong during a review of the installation.