• DJ holding Kelly Heaton's Nightjar birdsong synthesizer

    DJ with Nightjar

  • Model wearing Kelly Heaton's Circuit Icon dress

    Circuit Icon Dress

  • Reverse view of Circuit Icon dress

    Circuit Icon Dress (reverse)

  • Model wearing Kelly Heaton's digital light strap with a bipolar beanie covered in electronic butterflies

    Light Strap ++

  • Model wearing Kelly Heaton's polar beanie covered in electronic butterflies

    Butterfly Beanie

  • Kelly Heaton unzipping a resistor pack

    Resistor Pack

  • Kelly Heaton wearing a bipolar bucket cap

    Bipolar Bucket Cap

  • Bipolar bucket cap, free-form resistor necklace, and circuit dress

    RC Couture

  • Hip hop resistor vest with bipolar bucket hat and circuit dress

    Resistor Vest

  • Resistor pack with sunshine colors of 4.3K

    4.3K Resistor pack

  • Kelly Heaton wearing Circuit Icon tunic and carrying a screen printed circuit tote bag

    Tunic + Tote

  • Screen printed circuit tote bag

    Tote

  • Vinyl transfer circuit coat (front detail)

    Rain Duster

  • Vinyl transfer circuit coat (reverse detail)

    Rain Duster (reverse)

  • Model wrapped in Kelly Heaton's green screen printed circuit fabric

    Hardware

  • Model's face and hands with Kelly Heaton's screen printed fabric

    Software

  • Kelly Heaton's bipolar cap, digital fabric, and resistor back packs

    A2D conversion

  • Collection of textiles designed by artist Kelly Heaton

    Circuit Icon Textiles

  • Detail of Kelly Heaton's circuit textile design

    Shed your skin

  • Kelly Heaton's battery-inspired textile design

    Fully Charged

  • Kelly Heaton's playful preppy whale and wifi textile design

    WiFi Whale

  • IC with a heart in the middle

    AI IC

  • AI is Human Nature

    AI is Human Nature

image credits:

Art + Direction: Kelly Heaton
Photographers: Kaustav Sarkar, Seva Jagat (Sergio Francisco Montenegro)
Models: Spandita Sharma and Simone Chen

Circuit Icon light strap prototype. Hardware-animated, sound-responsive LEDs.

Prototype development during NYU IDM Tandon artist residency, 2023

  • Kelly Heaton's Nightjar birdsong synthesizer sculpture

    Nightjar, 2023

  • Kelly Heaton's electronic naturalism print that generates life-like bird song from coupled oscillators

    Perroquetus Photoreactilis

  • Kelly Heaton's iconic Pretty Bird circuit design

    Pretty Bird

  • Avalokiteshvara: a crystal radio who hears the voices of all in need

    Avalokiteshvara

  • Copper capacitor plates in the shape of lotus blossoms

    Lotus Capacitor Plates

  • Kelly Heaton's sketch for a circuit in which we are all connected

    We Are One Circuit

  • Reverse of Pretty Bird circuit board, "We are all connected in one Earth circuit."

    One Earth Circuit

  • A torn-up urban jersey for people who play on team Earth

    Earth Jersey

  • I misspelled Duracell. The battery does not hold that kind of charge.

    Big dumb Batteries

  • Cute LED sculpture by artist Kelly Heaton

    Bright LEDs

  • Playful resistors

    Twistor Resistor

  • Mushrooms are circuit geniuses.

    Mycelium Circuits

  • Drawing of a living circuit totem by Kelly Heaton

    Circuit Totem

  • A sketch of a circuit smiling.

    Smiley Circuit Sketch

  • Resistor yanking on the leg of an LED that is smiling anyway

    Spark Gap Sketch

  • An IC with awkward legs

    Tangled Leads