Lucas LaRochelle is a designer and researcher whose work is concerned with queer and trans digital cultures, community-based archiving, and artificial intelligence. They are the founder of Queering The Map, a community generated counter-mapping platform for digitally archiving LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space.
+ They have lectured, facilitated, and exhibited internationally, recently at the Guggenheim Museum (USA), Interaccess (Canada), Gallery Tata (Japan), Digital Writer’s Festival (Australia), MUTEK (Canada), Ars Electronica (Austria), LINZ FMR Festival (Austria), Somerset House (UK), Onomatopee Projects (Netherlands), fanfare (Netherlands), OTHERWISE Festival (Zurich), Ada X (Canada), and SBC Gallery (Canada). They have presented research at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras School of Architecture, University of Cambridge and Stanford University, amongst other academic institutions.
+ Their work and writing has been published in MIT’s Immerse, Network Imaginaries, Futuress, Dreaming Beyond AI, Queer Sites in Global Contexts, Atlas Menor #1, QUEER.ARCHIVE.WORK #3, Diagrams of Power, IWAKAN, ROM, Accent, Echelles, and Perfect Strangers, amongst other books and publications.
+ Their project, QT.bot, was awarded an Honorary Mention for the 2023 Prix Ars Electronica in the Artificial Intelligence and Life Art category. Their project, Queering The Map, was awarded an Honorary Mention for the 2018 Prix Ars Electronica in the Digital Communities category, nominated for the Lumen Prize for Digital Art and the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards, and is included in the Library of Congress LGBTQ+ Studies Web Archive.
+ Their work has been written about and featured in The New York Times, Dezeen, CityLab, CBC Arts, VICE, AIGA Eye On Design, Vogue, I-D, Paper, INTO, Yorokobu, Archer, Numerama, and Project Myopia amongst other media outlets.
+ They are the recipient of the 2021 CQAM/Turbulent Residency. In 2019 they were the inaugural Curatorial Fellow at The Curatorial and Public Scholarship Lab. They have been in residence at Studio XX, Social Service Club, MUTEK AI Art Lab and The Fine Arts Reading Room.
+ In 2016 they received a certificate in Co-Design from the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, and a BFA in Design and Computation Arts from Concordia University in 2020. They have recently worked as a curator at the Phi Center, a web developer at Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace, and currently freelance as a consultant, designer and developer for artists and cultural institutions. They are based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal.
Lucas LaRochelle is a designer and researcher whose work is concerned with queer and trans digital cultures, community-based archiving, and artificial intelligence. They are the founder of Queering The Map, a community generated counter-mapping platform for digitally archiving LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space.
+ They have lectured, facilitated, and exhibited internationally, recently at the Guggenheim Museum (USA), Interaccess (Canada), Gallery Tata (Japan), Digital Writer’s Festival (Australia), MUTEK (Canada), Ars Electronica (Austria), LINZ FMR Festival (Austria), Somerset House (UK), Onomatopee Projects (Netherlands), fanfare (Netherlands), OTHERWISE Festival (Zurich), Ada X (Canada), and SBC Gallery (Canada). They have presented research at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras School of Architecture, University of Cambridge and Stanford University, amongst other academic institutions.
+ Their work and writing has been published in MIT’s Immerse, Network Imaginaries, Futuress, Dreaming Beyond AI, Queer Sites in Global Contexts, Atlas Menor #1, QUEER.ARCHIVE.WORK #3, Diagrams of Power, IWAKAN, ROM, Accent, Echelles, and Perfect Strangers, amongst other books and publications.
+ Their project, QT.bot, was awarded an Honorary Mention for the 2023 Prix Ars Electronica in the Artificial Intelligence and Life Art category. Their project, Queering The Map, was awarded an Honorary Mention for the 2018 Prix Ars Electronica in the Digital Communities category, nominated for the Lumen Prize for Digital Art and the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards, and is included in the Library of Congress LGBTQ+ Studies Web Archive.
+ Their work has been written about and featured in The New York Times, Dezeen, CityLab, CBC Arts, VICE, AIGA Eye On Design, Vogue, I-D, Paper, INTO, Yorokobu, Archer, Numerama, and Project Myopia amongst other media outlets.
+ They are the recipient of the 2021 CQAM/Turbulent Residency. In 2019 they were the inaugural Curatorial Fellow at The Curatorial and Public Scholarship Lab. They have been in residence at Studio XX, Social Service Club, MUTEK AI Art Lab and The Fine Arts Reading Room.
+ In 2016 they received a certificate in Co-Design from the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, and a BFA in Design and Computation Arts from Concordia University in 2020. They have recently worked as a curator at the Phi Center, a web developer at Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace, and currently freelance as a consultant, designer and developer for artists and cultural institutions. They are based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal.