The project / Team
Research professors
Judith Poirier
Judith Poirier is a professor at UQAM’s School of Design. Her work focuses mainly on typography, in a conceptual and experimental approach, alternating between publishing and animation projects. She is interested in the hybridization of processes, integrating traditional know-how with a contemporary practice. Using her typographic press, she explores the visual and sonic rhythm of type by printing directly onto film. This random animation process creates a unique texture on the screen, in addition to generating an original soundtrack. Her work in publishing design, notably for the project La chose imprimée, combines tactile qualities, materiality and printing processes, in an ongoing reflection on possible reading experiences. Her research and creation favour interdisciplinary exchanges and collaboration.
Amandine Alessandra
Amandine Alessandra is a professor at UQAM’s School of Design and a member of CELAT (Centre de recherches : cultures, arts, sociétés). Her research focuses on the graphic forms of evanescent experience, its representation and mediation on the one hand, and on collective graphic practices, between performance and co-creation on the other. Interested in the impermanence of the framework of message dissemination and reception, and its influence on the creation of meaning, she organises participatory performances in which she tests the ability of the typographic forms she designs to fit into contexts in perpetual change, in collaboration with international cultural institutions as well as local community organisations.
Research assistants
Myriam Bourbeau
Myriam Bourbeau studied science and psychology before embarking on her design career. She is interested in typography and publishing design. Her work was recognized at the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) competition in 2022. Her formal and conceptual approach is characterized by rigor and attention to detail. As part of the project, she participates in the creation of the visual identity and the design of the website. She is also involved in the various stages of research and exploration, particularly in programming and the design of digital tools.
Ève Laguë
Ève Laguë has a bachelor’s degree in illustration (UAL), in environmental design (UQAM) and is currently studying graphic design (UQAM). She is interested in illustration in all its forms, in publishing as well as in animation, in its printed form or its insertion in the urban setting. In 2022, her illustrations were presented at the Sounds About Riso exhibition in New York. As part of the Hypercodex team, she is responsible for risography printing and participates in the exploration of similar materials and processes that may lend themselves to printing techniques.
Collaborators
Tukker Kapp
Tucker Kapp is an artist-printmaker-typographer, poet and playwright, and is currently a Phd candidate at UQAM in Études et pratiques des arts. He is undertaking a thesis-creation to understand how the tool (manual/bodily, mechanical or digital) alters the artist’s relationship to the creative process. American by origin and Montrealer at times, he normally resides in rural France where he runs a publishing and typographic printing house, Les Écrits 9.