Irmandy Wicaksono is a transdisciplinary electrical and textile engineer, artist, and designer. By applying an artistic approach to technological textile design and experimenting with various functional and non-functional fibers and fabric architectures, Wicaksono augments knitted textiles with sensory and computation capabilities that bridge and merge the physical and digital worlds to evoke memories and novel experiences. In the age of functional materials, digital fabrication, and immersive technologies, his approach redefines and reinvents textile purpose as a responsive skin, challenging materiality and the blurring dualities between material and immaterial, real and virtual.
