Amandine Alessandra

Amandine Alessandra is a photographer, designer, and professor at the School of Design at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Her research explores the body as an interface in the process of mediation of the message, as well as the ways in which digital tools function as spatial and temporal extensions of the Here and Now. Particularly interested in the impermanence of the context of diffusion and reception of language, and in its influence in the production of meaning, she conducts her investigations in the TAO lab of interdisciplinary typographic experimentation and as a member of the UQAM Research Chair in Design for eMental Health (DIAMENT). Her practice involves textual messages set in multimedia and human performances, overlaying Twitter and Zoom virtual spaces with physical environments such as the Raphael Court at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts in Beirut, and the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, challenging how the typographic forms she conceives can adapt to ever-changing contexts.