Brice Ammar-Khodja is a designer and visual artist. He holds a PhD in Design from the SACRe program at ENSAD – PSL University (Paris, 2025) and a PhD in Fine Arts from the INDI program at Concordia University (Montreal, 2025). He is a associate researcher at the laboratory of the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (EnsadLab). His research focuses on the sensitive and perceptual dimensions of environmental pollution.
His work, situated at the crossroads of data design, participatory practices in art and design, sensory design, and in situ installation, examines regimes of visibility and perception of residues and contaminants present in pedological (soil), aerial, and aquatic environments. Often rendered invisible by sociopolitical and urban dynamics, these phenomena call for new forms of materialization, sensualization, and mediation.
To make them perceptible, he develops polysensory artistic devices, participatory tools, and intervention methodologies in research-creation. In particular, he has developed residual archaeology, an approach composed of a series of artistic and ethnographic gestures aimed at exploring contaminated territories in a sensitive and perceptual manner, in order to activate forms of dialogue and critical debate in society.
Brice Ammar-Khodja teaches data design, graphic design, critical artistic practices, and research-creation methodologies. Dedicated to experimental pedagogy, he also designs workshops and tools for the general public, aimed at expanding access to artistic research.
His work has been exhibited internationally, notably at the Némo Biennale (Paris), the Canadian Cultural Centre (Paris), Ars Electronica (Linz), Perte-de-Signal (Montreal), the International Design Biennale (Saint-Étienne), Mutek (Montreal), V2_ Institute for Unstable Media (Rotterdam), the Historical Museum of the City of Strasbourg (Strasbourg), and the International Printmaking Biennale (Yerevan).