Virtual
In 2018, Lucas LaRochelle launched Queering the Map, a digital mapping project to collect and display LGBTQ+ stories and experiences worldwide. They have since created QT.bot, an Artificial Intelligence platform trained on textual and visual data from Queering the Map, that generates speculative queer and trans narratives and the environments in which they occur.
On October 18, we'll be joined by Lucas for a virtual talk in our Design Justice series, where they will discuss questions and issues related to Queering the Map and QT.bot, such as:
Why use fictional stories when discussing groups of people who have been ignored or left out of historical records?
What can AI teach us about dealing with the confusion and chaos created by traumatic events?
How can dissociation, detachment, and disconnection help us imagine new worlds?
Event Requirements
A Zoom account and a stable Internet connection are required for participation.
The Zoom link for this discussion will be emailed to all participants 30 minutes before the workshop begins. If you have trouble logging in, please reach out directly to the community coordinator for this course at maryk@museumofdesign.org.
Registration Fee: Registration for this event is free; just sign up by clicking the button below!
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Email Maryk@museumofdesign.org with any questions about the event.
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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.
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, I-D, Paper, AIGA Eye on Design, C Magazine, de Volkskrant, CityLab, MIT’s Immerse, CBC Arts, VICE, Vogue, The Hindu and El Espectador amongst others.
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