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“Wired Wear: Mediating Everyday Performances” is a series of women’s clothing embedded with custom electronics designed to provide the wearer with improved functionality in the public sphere. Through the combination of electronics and fashion, these “performative technologies” assist the user by providing increased environment-awareness, indicators for pleasure, and better posture. “Wired Wear” enhances and expands performance beyond the athletic, economic, or theatre contexts and draws attention to technology’s mediation of our everyday “performances.”

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Heidi Kumao is an interdisciplinary artist who uses various forms of technology to explore the psychological aspects of everyday behavior. She creates robotic sculptures, intimate installations, “cinema machines,” and digital animations and video. Her primary interest is in the use of electronic media as mediator of ordinary interactions. She has shown her work throughout the U.S. , South America, Europe and Canada including one-person exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires , Argentina , Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona , Spain , and at Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco.

www.heidikumao.net