Zaven Paré is a visual artist, doing Machine Art. His work as visual artist has been featured in various exhibitions, retrospectives and biennials, and through collaborations for luxury brands.
He invented the electronic marionette in the 1990s (works presented across collections and archives in USA, Russia, Italy, Suitzerland, Belgium and France). As interaction designer, he became associate of the Robot Actors Project of Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University and ATR in Kyoto) as Robot Drama Researcher since 2009.
He was a long time collaborator for performing arts, as a costume and a set designer worldwide for dance choreographers (Chouinard, Lock), for theatre and musical theater (Marleau, Kagel) and for ballet and opera (Het National Ballet, Opera de Paris). His devices staged the first Novarina's play in English (CalArts, 1999).
He also teaches theory and practice of the arts. His research focuses on technological applications in the artistic field. He is the author of numerous articles, and more recently he published the books "L'âge d'or de la robotique Japonaise" (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2016) and "Le spectacle anthropomorphique, entre les singes et les robots" (2021).
