★彡 benoit p.
i’m a Tokyo-based freelance producer, writer, researcher, and curator with 15+ years of experience across internet culture and digital art.
since 2019, i’ve worked as content strategist at MUTEK.JP.
as a freelancer, i’ve collaborated with Wired Japan, Mozilla Foundation, Rhizome, M+ Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Montreal, Feral File, i-D, and VICE, among others, and have been profiled in Forbes Japan.
in 2023, i co-founded LAN Party w/ Vienna Kim, a curatorial and research duo exploring internet subcultures and gaming through writing, exhibitions, activations, and webinars. more recently, we co-curated Rhizome’s 30th-anniversary exhibition in New York and edited and produced Non-Playable Characters, a collection of essays on the NPC phenomenon.
i hold master’s degrees in digital media research from Sorbonne Université, Paris, and philosophy/aesthetics from Florida International University, Miami.
internet 4 ever ❣
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likes
⚘ 90s JRPGs & visual novels
⚘ being online
⚘ libraries
⚘ tokyo
⚘ internet folkolre
dislikes
✩ outrage becoming a content strategy
✩ algorithms
✩ matcha