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Artist: Zaven Paré
Zaven Paré has been awarded the French American Fund for Performing Arts twice, as well as the Villa Kujoyama residency, the Japan Society for Promotion of Science grant, and the Prêmio Sérgio Motta em Arte e Tecnologia in Brazil. Notably, he created the electronic puppet of the god Ganesh for its namesake festival in Mumbai in 2014, a project featured in a documentary on ARTE in 2016. Following his artistic and research contributions, he was the guest of honor at the Moscow Puppetry Festival in 2019, and more recently served as the curator for an exhibition on robots at Japan House in São Paulo.
His devices and research serve both the performing arts and various fields of robotics engineering. His creations are part of the collections of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry in Storrs, the Puppetry Theatre in Moscow, the Museo internazionale delle marionette Antonio Pasqualino in Palermo, the Lutkovno Gledališče Maribor, the Muzeum loutkářských kultur in Chrudim, the Swiss Puppet Museum in Fribourg, the Museum of Ethnology in Neuchâtel, the House of Puppets in Tournai, the Peruchet Museum in Brussels, and the Museum of World Puppets in Lyon. Additionally, his archives as a costume designer, set designer, and props master are mainly held at the Centre National de la Danse in Pantin, the Gaston Baty Library at Sorbonne University, and the Performing Arts Department of the National Library of France (BNF).
Zaven Paré is also the author of several books, including The Golden Age of Japanese Robotics (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2016), The Anthropomorphic Show: Between Apes and Robots (Dijon: Les Presses du Réel, 2021), and a forthcoming work, Laboratory Theater: Preludes to Robot Interaction Design (Nanterre: Presses Universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2025).