Born in Dives-sur-Mer (Calvados) in 1942, music academy graduate ( violin ), engineer and a degree in law, Robert SEVE's career has included being company Chief Executive Officer and Chairman in computer business, industry and high-technologies.

He has also been the organiser of a number of Independant and Experimental Film Festivals : in Strasbourg in 1965 and 1966, in Funchal (Madeira) in 1979, at Beaubourg (French Film Institute "La Cinémathèque Française") in 1982, and at the San Francisco Art Institute in1983.

A self-taught film-maker, author and producer of his own films, he has realised__ completely independantly__ around twenty films on Art and research, "Experimental Films" with numerous exhibitions : Knokke le Zoute, SIGMA Bordeaux, Prades, Beaubourg,…

In 1979, he was to realise the first commercial images for "Cinema on Computer".

Robert SEVE was rendered a "special tribute" on the occasion of the "First International Festival of Films on Art" at the MUSEUM OF COMTEMPORARY ART in Montreal in October 1981, and also from the French Film Institute "La Cinémathèque Française" in March 1983.

Discoverer (in 1966) and friend of the African Painter and Story-teller Clément-Marie BIAZIN, he was to be the financial supporter and relentless defender of this major artist.

Preserving and documenting BIAZIN's work throughout the years, Robert SEVE organised many important personnal exhibitions of BIAZIN's paintings in some of the most prestigious european Museums, such as the STEDELIJK MUSEUM of AMSTERDAM in 1978, the MUSEUM OF MODERN ART of DUSSELDORF in 1980, and the Museum for African and Oceanic Arts (MAAO) of PARIS in 1994.

Robert SEVE is the president and founder of "TIERS MONDES/ARTS MAJEURS" ( "THIRD WORLDS/MAJOR ARTS" ).