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Elle méandre la recherche, la direction artistique et le design d’édition à travers les médias. Elle s’associe dans le milieu culturel et périodique, collaborant avec Artexte, Droog, Institut Strelka, Mediamatic, Metahaven, Penguin Random House et VPRO, un difusseur public néerlandais. Sa refonte de Hazlitt magazine pour Penguin a été primée Siteweb de l’année par les Prix du magazine canadien.
       Michèle recherche et questionne la culture anti-critique, le bonheur dans la surveillance numérique, et la pensée positive obligatoire dans la société occidentale. Elle enseigne des fois, récemment comme Professeure invitée à l’École de design à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Elle écrit pour Back Office, C Magazine, The Gradient et Volume.

She circulates between research, art direction and publication design across media. She works with cultural and publishing players, collaborating with Artexte, Droog, Mediamatic Foundation, Metahaven, Penguin Random House, Strelka Institute and VPRO, a Dutch public broadcaster. Her redesign of Hazlitt magazine for Penguin won Website of the Year from National Magazine Awards.
       Michèle’s research questions anti-criticism culture in design, happiness measurement in digital surveillance, and mandatory positivity in Western culture. She teaches sometimes, recently as Guest Professor at the School of Design at University of Québec in Montréal. She writes for Back Office, C Magazine, The Gradient and Volume.

Research residency on “the happiness industry” and its vocabulary. Research invites study and dialogue around the question, What happens when happiness and well-being get tangled in digital surveillance? Design and writing for an absurdist happiness glossary and search engine (under development),

Direction for a self-initiated school blending art, design and computation. Lively talks, workshops and collaborative publishing are its core activities. Contributing faculty includes Daniel Canty, Steph Davidson, Jon Gacnic, Jürg Lehni, Zach Lieberman, Ken Lum, Tracy Ma, Dimitri Nieuwenhuizen and Mindy Seu. TXT, A-B-Z’s international typography summer school, is organized with Garry Ing and Greg J. Smith,

Eclectic lines and longreads,

Design dialogue days gone by,

Sleeping with cinema and other survival tactics,

Cut and paste pages and perspectives,

Là d’où nous venons,

Social networks before silicon networks,

Tic, Talk,

AIGA, US
École de design à l’UQAM, CA
GDC Manitoba, CA
Harvard GSD, US
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, US
OCAD University, CA
Print Room, NL
Sandberg at Mediafonds, NL
SBC Gallery, CA
Typographische Gesselschaft
München, DE
University of the Arts London, UK

Tutorat, Teach,

École de design à l’UQAM, CA
MICA, US
OCAD University, CA
Red River College, CA
York University, CA