Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar, and Paul Kaiser have created digital artworks for stage, screen, gallery, and museum, with a present focus on art for public spaces. Previous works at Lincoln Center include BIPED (1999) with Merce Cunningham and how long… (2005) with Trisha Brown. For more information, see www.openendedgroup.com.

Jane Moss, Mostly Mozart Artistic Director, instigated and oversaw the commission of Enlightenment. Louis Langrée, Renee and Robert Belfer Music Director, supervised the music process. Terry Pender, Assistant Director of Columbia University’s Computer Music Center, oversaw the musical recording and sound design. Marco Steinberg and Cathy Braash Dean designed the physical installation. Nat Johnson and Greg Mitnick assisted with the video shoot.

Enlightenment was commissioned by the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, with sponsorship by Jerome L Greene Foundation and The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation.

The development of Enlightenment relied upon the following Open Source packages, APIs, and toolkits: JOGL / Ken Russell; Jython / Jim Hugunin & Barry Warsaw; JGroups / Bela Ban et al; Quaqua / Werner Randelshofer; Batik / Apache Group; Rsync / Samba; XStrean / Joe Walnes et al; Eclipse / The Eclipse Foundation.