Zaven Paré

Zaven Paré was born in 1961 in France, where he studied art and literature, followed by postdoctoral research at the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory in Osaka. Since the 1990s he lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, but regularly intervenes throughout the world, often in collaboration with performing arts, such as opera, theatre, dance and music. In four decades, he has gone from pioneer in the use of new media to archaeologist of their underlying technology.

His artistic creations address the notion of device in a backward reflection, towards the possible origin of the latest high-tech buzz. His assemblages delight us, diving into optics, mechanics, and analogue electronics before the emergence of technological arts with their augmented, virtual, mixed or extended reality, connected objects or online art, already getting supplanted by AI. Deliberately going against these recent trends, Paré experiments with found objects while having fun, reinventing our world at every turn.