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Jonathan Keats explored how technology wearables might fundamentally alter people's sense of self.

In 2015, LACMA’s Art + Technology Lab awarded Jonathon Keats a grant to explore how wearable technology could enhance, diminish, or alter the identity of the wearer. The artist worked with Lab advisor John Suh and his team from Hyundai Motor Company to extend his ideas about wearables into the automotive realm. Titled “Roadable Synapse”, the project’s first iteration underwent more than two years of research and development before it was realized in the summer of 2017.