Rebroadcast

Rebroadcast marks a profound creative convergence between contemporary glass artists Frederik Rombach and Gregory Alliss, born during an intensive artist residency at Rombach’s innovative RERO Glass studio in Antwerp. Rebroadcast is the culmination of their shared mission: to dismantle the boundary between industrial material science and sustainable studio glassmaking, transforming toxic electronic obsolescence into an elegant commentary on the digital age.

The collaborative process combines two highly distinct technical masteries to conquer an otherwise unyielding medium. Frederik Rombach provides the specialized, high-heat hotshop infrastructure and dynamic glassblowing agility necessary to manipulate volatile materials, while Gregory Alliss contributes a deep, calculated expertise in structural glass-casting, precise mold-making, and optical refraction. Together, they confront the formidable challenges of recycled Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) television glass—a stiff, lead-heavy material notorious for its thermal instability and resistance to artistic manipulation.

By balancing Alliss’s rigorous understanding of slow thermal cooling with Rombach’s physical expression at the furnace, the duo successfully coaxes fluid, cloud-like patterns from the depths of the discarded screens. These internal, frozen currents serve as a visual echo of the electronic signals and light waves that once animated the obsolete devices. In doing so, Rebroadcast shifts the viewer's gaze from the fleeting images once projected by the machine to the physical permanence of the machine itself.