Lucas LaRochelle

Lucas LaRochelle is a designer and researcher whose work is concerned with queer and trans digital cultures, community-based archiving, and artificial intelligence. They have lectured, facilitated, and exhibited internationally, recently at the Guggenheim Museum (USA), Ars Electronica (Austria), Museum of Design Atlanta (USA), The PHI Center (Canada), Interaccess (Canada), Gallery Tata (Japan), ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (Australia), Digital Writer’s Festival (Australia), MUTEK (Canada), 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 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, and is included in the Library of Congress LGBTQ+ Studies Web Archive.