Please join us at the Coach House on Friday, September 13th, for the opening reception of our annual Artist-in-Residence exhibition! Drinks & refreshments will be provided, all are welcome.
Stay tuned for an official exhibition announcement coming soon!
CCT’s 2024-2025 Artist-in-Residence 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.
Responding to our 2024-25 programming theme of “Absent Here, Present There”, LaRochelle has been further developing their ongoing project QT.bot – an artificial intelligence, trained on the dataset of the community mapping platform Queering the Map that generates speculative queer and trans narratives and images of the environments in which they might occur. In collaboration with the voices of their human community, QT.bot fabulates on the absences of the archive, orienting us away from what is, and towards what could be.
LaRochelle’s residency will culminate in an onsite exhibition at the Coach House in September, consisting of a new speculative documentary film produced with QT.bot material, presented within a multi media installation.
Details:
- September 13, 2024, 6 to 8 pm
- The Coach House, Centre for Culture and Technology
