Artist, Senior Fellow of the Centre for Unframed Thinking (CUT) of Rennes School of Business (RSB)

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Zaven Paré is a new media artist and an expert in robotics, internationally known for his artwork on electronic marionettes and robots. He designed his first electronic marionette in 1996 from a source of video retroprojection in Canada, followed in 1999 by the digital version at the Cotsen Center for Puppetry of CalArts (California Institute of the Arts). Currently he is a fellow collaborator in “interaction design” at the Institut d’études avancées – Aix Marseille Université, where he builds upon other fellowships he has held in engineering, notably in robotics for the Robot Actors Project, in the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory of Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro at Osaka University.