Quentin Benelfoul is a freelance designer and digital artist. After completing a DSAA in Design and Digital Creation at the École Estienne, he specialised in the Master of Design Exploration & Translation at the University of Art in Reykjavik.

In France, he focuses on human-machine relationships. In Iceland, he focuses on inter-species relations and tells the anthropomorphic story of invasive plants.  As mediators between two worlds, machines enable him to open up to trans-species communication.

Since 2021, he has been working with Jean-Marc Chomaz and Nicolas Reeves. Together, they have developed installations at the Arts & Sciences laboratory at the École Polytechnique and at UQAM, including Acquinière, and Et Mainte Pages Blanches entre ses mains froissée, exhibited at the Quais des Savoirs in Toulouse. As an artist, he took part in the Voltaje festival, Salón de arte y tecnología in Bogotá.

With his expertise in design and interactive creation, he is supervising laboratory 1 of Useful Fiction 4 alongside Jean-Marc Chomaz and Olivier Doaré, developing sound transformation systems. As part of this Arts & Sciences collaboration in research and creation, he is co-constructing listening devices that perform new forms of language. Transcoded into breath, sound and vibration, these languages explore new ways of listening to the senses, opening up the poetic world of hidden interiority. This project, Percevoir le Bruit du Monde, was presented at the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles and then at Réalités Nouvelles.

Today, with Olivier Doaré and Pierre Jarlan, he is exploring these same themes in the context of medical research, in particular during the Mon Corps, Ma Cabane participative workshops. He will also be applying these techniques to speech therapy sessions deaf and hard-of-hearing people.