Zaven Paré

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Zaven Paré is a French new media artist who was born in 1961. He met Piotr Kowalski and Nicolas Schöffer from 1981 to 1983, and exposed his first bionic structure the same year in the Modern Art Museum of Paris. He participated in the Greenwich Meridian beaconing at La Flèche airport (France) in 1984.

Painter for state manufacture of tapestry of Beauvais and in Aubusson (Creuse) in 1987, he worked for the Manufacture des Gobelins numerical colorimeter project on the replacement of Chevreul’s cabinet. He became painter for the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres in 1991.

In 1988, he created his first inflate structure for the set design of the choreographer Marie Chouinard, for the Olympics Arts Festival of Calgary, and started working for Edouard Lock . Also in Canada, he collaborated the same year, with Henri E. Strub on a five input joystick system for commanding submarines.

He drew the circular video projection screens for the 1990 David Bowie tour and designed a sound installation for Mauricio Kagel in 1992 at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal. In 1998 he designed a double slope floor for the set design of Don Giovanni at the Opera Bastille. He has also collaborated in various shows on international stages: the Het National Ballet of Amsterdam, the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) of London, the National Theatre of Brussels, the Théâtre de la Ville de Paris, the Institut International de la Marionnette of Charleville-Mezières, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the National Center of Arts of Ottawa, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York, as well as many festivals.

In 1996, Zaven Paré designed his first Electronic Marionette from a source of video retro-projection for the theater director Denis Marleau in Canada, followed in 1999 by the digital version (digital puppetry with electronic guidance), controlled with a keyboard, for the show which he directed at the Cotsen Center for Puppetry of CalArts (Californian Institute of the Arts). In 2002, he projected the analogic version of his electronic marionette, controlled by voice, this time for Valère Novarina at the Festival d'Avignon.

Zaven Paré continues to do research on multimedia interfaces for Performing art and Robotic art installations. He has lived in Brazil since 1993.