Thierry Chaput was born on 12 October 1949 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Département Hauts-de-Seine, where he spent his childhood. He lived and worked in Paris where, together with sculptor and architect , he had two children, Thomas and Alice. Thierry Chaput died in Paris on 28 April 1990.
Academic and professional career
Thierry Chaput went to the Lycée Buffon in Paris, where he did his baccalauréat in 1967. He studied at ENSAD, Paris, where he received his diploma in Product Design in 1973, and then studied Ergonomics at CNAM. In 1989/1990, Chaput was working on a doctorate about "Esthétique des micro-technologies et des systèmes numériques" with Edmond Couchot at Univ. Paris VIII, departement Arts et technologie de l'image. Thierry Chaput first worked as an intern and trainee journalist at ORTF, department for international broadcasts. Chaput was then commissioned by the Centre de Création Industriel, C.C.I., Centre Georges Pompidou, to develop a system to automate the documentation of products, called SIP . Project at the Fonderie du Bélier, in Vérac, Gironde. Project management and curator of exhibitions and audiovisual productions at the C.C.I.. Programme coordinator at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, La Villette, Paris. Project coordinator "Maison de la communication du Nord-Pas de Calais", which opened in the city of Béthune as IRCOM in 1987. General secretary of ACM SIGGRAPH FRANCE, scientific and artistic director of the PIXIM 88 exhibition and festival. Engineering consultant in ergonomics for the electrical household appliances company , Lyon. Lecturer at ESIEE and Université Paris VIII. Member of the International Scientific Committee of "Espace SNVB International". Co-founder of the exhibitions company ORGANON, together with Marc Girard and Martine Moinot in 1985. Other associates of the company included Bernard Stiegler and Philippe Delis.
La mesure du temps, Centre de Création Industriel, C.C.I., Centre Pompidou, 1979.
Travail sous conditions, Centre de Création Industriel, C.C.I., Centre Pompidou, 1979.
Billes en tête. L'imagerie du flipper, Centre de Création Industriel, C.C.I., Centre Pompidou, 1981.
différences/indifférences? Handicapes et vie quotidienne, Centre de Création Industriel, C.C.I., Centre Pompidou, 1981.
Langage papier-crayon, Centre de Création Industriel, C.C.I., Centre Pompidou, 1981.
Les Immatériaux, Centre de Création Industriel, C.C.I., Centre Pompidou, 1985.
L'Homme réparé, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, La Villette, Paris, 1986.
Image calculée, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, La Villette, Paris, 1988.
Publications
Thierry Chaput, André Hatala: "Ecrire ". In: Cree , no 26, janvier-février 1974, p. 38-43.
Energie pour la vie, ed. Ronald Alves, Charles Milligan, Paris: Editions du Chêne, 1977/1983.
"Rapport: Culture de communication: éléments de reflexion et propositions de protocoles pour des préfigurations dans les collectivités locales", Collège International de Philosophie, Ministère de la Recherche et de la Technologie,.
"Micro-esthétique en désordre." In: Cahiers du CCI , n 2, 1986, p. 93-96.
Colloquium Le musée aujourd'hui, with Thierry Chaput, Jean-Pierre Dalbera, Michel Deguy, Bernard Deloche, Jean-Louis Déotte, Serge Renimel, Michel Servière, Bernard Stiegler, organised in cooperation by Collège international de philosophie and Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Centre Pompidou, Paris 16-18 October 1986
"From Socrates to Intel: The Chaos of Microaesthetics", in Design after Modernism, ed. John Thackara, London: Thames & Hudson, 1988.
Various publications in the journals Cree, Autrement, Parachute, Les Cahiers du C.C.I., interviews published by Le Monde, Sciences et Avenir, New York Times, Modo, Falter, France-Inter, France-Culture, Europe No. 1.
Paraphernalia
Thierry Chaput was fond of old cars. He loved to drive and to repair beautiful mechanics. In 1990 he owned two Lancia Zagato, a Sunbeam Alpine, and drove a Rover 2000. Thierry Chaput did his military service, starting in October 1974, in Wittlich/Germany.
