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 project for digitally archiving LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space.
They have lectured, facilitated, and exhibited internationally, recently at the Guggenheim Museum (USA), Ars Electronica (Austria), Mozilla Festival (UK), Museum of Design Atlanta (USA), PHI Center (Canada), Gallery Tata (Japan), arc en rêve (France), School of Expansive Architecture (South Africa), Digital Writers Festival (Australia), MUTEK (Canada), LINZ FMR Festival (Austria), Somerset House (UK), Onomatopee Projects (Netherlands), fanfare (Netherlands), OTHERWISE Festival (Zurich), Ada X (Canada), Interaccess (Canada) and SBC Gallery (Canada). They have presented research at Stanford University, University of Cambridge, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras School of Architecture, amongst other academic institutions.
Their work and writing has been published in The Sociological Review, Media Culture and Society, Dreaming Beyond AI, Network Imaginaries, Futuress, MIT’s Immerse, 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, journals 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, 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, Time Magazine, Wired, HuffPost, The Nation, I-D, Paper, Nylon, Vogue, Dezeen, C Magazine, Bloomberg CityLab, MIT’s Immerse, El Espectador, The Hindu, de Volkskrant, CBC Arts, VICE (US, UK and Asia), AIGA Eye On Design, and Archer amongst numerous other publications.
In 2019 they were the inaugural Curatorial Fellow at The Curatorial and Public Scholarship Lab. They have been in residence at Ada X, Social Service Club, MUTEK AI Art Lab and The Fine Arts Reading Room, and are the recipient of the 2021 CQAM/Turbulent Residency. 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.