04 / ABOUTThe through-line

One practice, four tenses.

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I'm BENOÎT GRANIER. I run my professional life as a single practice with four interlocking modes: I lead a company, I architect its systems, I teach what I'm learning, and I make art that asks questions the other three modes can't.

For most of my career these felt like four jobs in tension with each other. Now they feel like four instruments in the same room. None of them is a hobby. Each one informs the others in ways that are hard to legibilize on a CV — and that's the point of this site.

I work best on problems that are weird enough to require multiple disciplines at once: new categories, ambitious cultural products, infrastructure for creative work, and the fuzzy edge between research and shipping.

// The four modes

CEO · Decision · Direction

Setting strategy, raising stakes, deciding what *not* to do. Five years scaling teams from kitchen-table to category leader.

CTO · Systems · Infrastructure

Shipping production-grade systems — distributed, observable, opinionated. Type-safe by default, boring by choice when it matters.

Educator · Knowledge · Translation

Teaching the bridge between disciplines. Guest lectures, workshops, mentoring — turning complexity into transferable models.

Artist · Expression · Emotion

Generative practice exploring perception, machine listening, and the texture of attention. Exhibited & performed internationally.

// Selected timeline

  1. 2026

    Building Atlas. Lecturing on systems thinking. Two solo shows scheduled.

  2. 2024

    Founded Luminary Studio. Group exhibition at [Institution].

  3. 2022

    First sound installation commissioned. Started teaching residencies.

  4. 2020

    Open-sourced Loop. Began the long migration from product to practice.

  5. 2016

    First company. Hard lessons. Cheap tuition.

  6. 2012

    Started writing code in earnest. Started making art in secret.