Her practice explores the blurred boundaries between virtual and physical realities, using technology to question and reimagine identity, perception, and systems of control. Through a critical engagement with emerging tools, Lucas creates participatory works that open new possibilities for social and community interaction.
She moved to New York to attend the Cooper Union School of Art, and later to California’s Silicon Valley to receive an MFA in Art Practice at Stanford University. Lucas has been featured in Art in America, Artforum, Engadget, and Hyper allergic, and she is the recent recipient of an Engadget Alternate Realities Grant and a SciArt Institute The Bridge Collaborative Residency.
Her work has been presented nationally and internationally at venues including Artists Space, Dia Center for the Arts, FACT Liverpool, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Harvest works, Haus der Kunst, HeK Basel, ICA Philadelphia, Nam June Paik Art Center, Pioneer Works, OK Center for Contemporary Art, MoMA, New Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and ZKM; and at festivals including BAM Teknopolis, Cinekid, Earth x Film, Impakt, ISEA, Okeechobee Music & Arts, Print Screen, TIFF, Transmediale, World Wide Video, and WSJ Future of Everything.
She currently teaches Studio Art at the University of Texas at Austin, is a co-founder of a cross-disciplinary working group that promotes multidisciplinary climate engagement, as well as the Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow for Digital Futures and Social Justice.
