In 1980, a specially choreographed dance was written and performed by the Harbinger Dance Company. Rene Vega, one of the creators of the sculpture, is the male performer in the dance.

The CENTURY OF LIGHT is maintained by the City of Detroit and has been continuously operating since 1980. In 1990, the PROGMOD traveled with Vision and Invention, a computer art show organized by Cynthia Goodman for the Everson Museum in New York and appears in her book "Digital Visions: Computers and Art" (Abrams Company, New York, NY, 1988.)
The CENTURY OF LIGHT is part of a five block pedestrian mall.

The light grid was designed to integrate with the pre-existing water works and red pipe lighting structure designed by Gino Rossetti of Rossetti Associates Architects in Birmingham, Michigan..

The mandela which is the basis of the light grid's pattern appears in eleventh century islamic mosque tilings. It is generated from a combination of 4,5,6,7 and 8 sided polygons.

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