Zaven Paré is a French

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artist born in 1961.

Life

Painter for state manufacture of tapestry of Beauvais in 1987, he worked for the

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N.I.M.E.S. project on the replacement of Chevreul's cabinet. He became painter for the

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in 1991. In 1988, he created his first inflate structure for the set design of the choreographer

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, for the Olympics Arts Festival of Calgary, and started working for Edouard Lock. He drew the circular video projection screens for the 1990

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tour and designed a sound installation for

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in 1992 at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal. In 1998 he designed a double slope floor for the set design of

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at the

Opéra Bastille The Opéra Bastille (, "Bastille Opera House") is a modern opera house in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. Inaugurated in 1989 as part of President François Mitterrand's '' Grands Travaux'', it became the main facility of the Paris N ...

. In 1996, Zaven Paré designed his first Electronic

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from a source of video retro-projection in Canada, followed in 1999 by the digital version (

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with electronic guidance), controlled with a keyboard, for the show which he directed at the Cotsen Center for Puppetry of

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(California Institute of the Arts). In 2002, he projected the analogic version of his electronic marionette, controlled by voice, this time for

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at the

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. Those two marionettes are respectively in the collection of the

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and the Gadagne Museum. Zaven Paré is one of the researchers of the Robot Actors Project of Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro.

Grants

* 1999 and 2001 French American Fund of Performing Arts, California Institute of the Arts. * 2002 RioArte, Rio de Janeiro. * 2009 Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto. * 2010 Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Osaka University. * 2011 Premio Sergio Motta em Arte e technologia, São Paulo.

Works

* Zaven Paré, O robô e a maçã. Rio de Janeiro : 7 Letras, 2010, v.1. p. 128. * Zaven Paré, Maquínas. Rio de Janeiro : 7 Letras, 2010, v.1. p. 116.

References

External links

* http://zavenpare.com * http://cyberart.com.br

Life

Grants

Works

References

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See also