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qui méandre la recherche, la direction artistique et le design d’édition à travers les médias. Elle s’associe dans le milieu culturel et périodique au Canada et aux Pays-Bas, collaborant avec Artexte, Centre pour les droits numériques, 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 la culture anti-critique du design, le bonheur dans la surveillance numérique et la pensée positive obligatoire dans la société occidentale. Elle enseigne des fois, récemment à titre de Professeure invitée à l’École de design à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Elle écrit pour Back Office, C Magazine, Failed Architecture, The Gradient par le Walker Art Center et Volume par la Fondation Archis.

who circulates between research, art direction and publication design across media. She works in the cultural and publishing spheres of Canada and the Netherlands, collaborating with Artexte, Centre for Digital Rights, Droog, Mediamatic, 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 researches 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, Failed Architecture, The Gradient by Walker Art Centre and Volume by Archis Foundation.

Research residency on “the happiness industry,” its vocabulary and legibility. 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 an autonomous school blending art, design and computation. Lively talks, workshops and collaborative publishing are its core activities. Contributors include Daniel Canty, Steph Davidson (Bloomberg.com), Jon Gacnic, Jürg Lehni, Zach Lieberman, Ken Lum, Tracy Ma (Bloomberg Businessweek), Dimitri Nieuwenhuizen and Mindy Seu. TXT, A-B-Z’s international typography summer school, is organized with Garry Ing and Greg J. Smith,

Absurdly eclectic and writer-centric,

Design dialogue days,

Sleeping with cinema and other survival tactics,

All the design that’s fit to publish,

Là d’où nous venons,

Social networks before silicon networks,

Tic, Talk,

American Institute of Graphic Arts, 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

Tutor, Teach,

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