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Michhham,
+001 647 834 1507

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qui circule entre la recherche, la direction artistique et le design d’édition à travers les médias. Elle méandre le milieu culturel et périodique, travaillant avec Artexte, Droog, Institut Strelka, Mediamatic, Metahaven, Penguin Random House Canada 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 les nouvelles dynamiques d’édition, 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 comme Professeure invitée à l’École de design à l’Université du Québec à Montréal.
        Elle écrit aussi, notamment pour Back Office à Paris, C Magazine à Toronto, The Gradient par Walker Art Centre à Minneapolis et Volume par Fondation Archis à Amsterdam.

who circulates between research, art direction and publication design across media. She moves within the cultural and publishing sectors, working with Artexte, Droog, Mediamatic Foundation, Metahaven, Penguin Random House Canada, Strelka Institute and VPRO, a Dutch public broadcaster. Her redesign of Hazlitt magazine for Penguin won Website of the Year from National Magazine Awards.
       Her research explores new publishing dynamics, 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 also writes, notably for Back Office in Paris, C Magazine in Toronto, The Gradient by Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis and Volume by Archis Foundation in Amsterdam.

Research 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 measurement and digital surveillance infrastructure? The Artexte collection provides valuable documentation on the theory of happiness and history of portraiture, panoptic art and architecture,


Direction and public program curation for a self-initiated school of design, art and computation. Lively talks, workshops and collaborative publishing are its core activities. Contributing faculty includes Daniel Canty, Stephanie Davidson (Bloomberg.com), Jon Gacnic (Folder Studio), Jürg Lehni, Zach Lieberman, Ken Lum, Tracy Ma (Bloomberg Businessweek), Dimitri Nieuwenhuizen (LUSTlab) and Mindy Seu. TXT is organized with Garry Ing and Greg J. Smith,

Conférences, 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

Pédagogie, Tutor,
Teach,

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