Brice Ammar-Khodja is a designer and visual artist. He holds a PhD in Design (SACRe – PSL program, Paris, 2025) and a PhD in Visual Arts / Fine Arts (INDI program, Concordia University, Montreal, 2025). He is currently a researcher and affiliated collaborator at the research laboratory of the École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris – Université Paris, Sciences et Lettres.
His research focuses on the aesthetic and sensory dimensions of environmental pollution. Positioned at the intersection of data design, participatory artistic practices, sensory design, and in situ installation, his work examines regimes of visibility and perception surrounding residues and contaminants present in soil, air, and water. Often rendered invisible by sociopolitical and urban dynamics, these phenomena call for new forms of materialization, sensualization, and mediation to be meaningfully perceived by affected communities.
To make these issues perceptible, he develops multisensory artistic devices, participatory tools, and research-creation methodologies. He has developed Residual Archaeology, an approach built around a series of artistic and ethnographic gestures — walking, collecting, activating, multisensualizing, and rematerializing — aimed at exploring contaminated territories in sensitive and perceptible ways, fostering dialogue and critical debate within society.
Brice Ammar-Khodja teaches data design, graphic design, critical artistic practices, and research-creation methodology. Committed to experimental pedagogy, he also designs workshops and tools for broader publics, helping expand access to artistic research.
He has collaborated with numerous research laboratories and centers in France and Canada, including the Centre for Sensory Studies, the Canada Research Chair in Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Communities and Cities, the Chair in Critical Practices in Materials and Materiality, the research-creation network Hexagram, the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology, and the Chaire art et sciences.
His work has been published in international journals and conferences, including Antennae Journal, the Design Research Society, ISEA, and Vecteur Environnement, and exhibited internationally at Biennale Némo (Paris), the Canadian Cultural Centre (Paris), Ars Electronica (Linz), Perte-de-Signal (Montreal), the International Design Biennial (Saint-Étienne), Mutek (Montreal), V2_ Institute for Unstable Media (Rotterdam), the Historical Museum of Strasbourg, and the International Print Biennial (Yerevan).