- Otto Piene was born on April 18, 1928 in Bad Laasphe, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was a director, known for Public Broadcast Laboratory (1967), 0 x 0 = Kunst: Maler ohne Farbe und Pinsel (1962) and Lumia (2008). He died on July 17, 2014 in Berlin, Germany.
- He was the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Advanced Visual Studies from 1974 to 1993.
- He studied art in Munich and Dusseldorf, and earned a degree in philosophy at Cologne University.
- His Light Satellite sculpture and the 1,600-foot Rainbow, both created for the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, were carried out in collaboration with MIT's Professor Harold Edgerton (the developer of the strobe light) and Professor Walter H.G. Lewin, an authority on balloon-borne X-ray astronomy who has a deep interest in modern art.
- He was an artist known for his colorful paintings and gigantic open-air sculptures, and a leading figure in technology-based art. His most famous work was the 1,600ft Rainbow that lit up the Munich sky at the end of the 1972 Summer Olympic Games.
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