Otto Piene — Light is my medium
2 min readApr 9, 2019
“Otto Piene was a German kinetic artist and co-founder of the ZERO avant-garde group. A pioneer of media art, Piene worked with light and motion to produce mesmerizing displays, as seen in his Light Ballet (1961). At the core of his practice was the desire to study technological processes and harness them to create a sense of movement. “Light is my medium,” Piene declared. “Previously, paintings and sculptures seemed to glow. Now they do.”
