3lectromode is owned and directed by designer-artist Valérie Lamontagne. 3lectromode is a Montreal-based fashion-tech studio invested in developing wearables combining cutting-edge technology with current fashion trends. The 3lectromode platform has created a series of market-ready interactive fashion products such as LED-embedded dresses and bags which are sold as kits of ready-mades. 3lectromode continues to research within the field of wearable technologies to bring you the most aesthetic, democratized and performative fashion tech.

In addition to her design initiatives, Valérie is presently a Ph.D. researcher at Concordia University investigating “Performativity, Materiality and Laboratory Practices in Artistic Wearables” where she teaches in the Department of Design & Computation Arts, and is a trendcaster/blogger for Fashioning Tech, and e-retail site wonderMode.

She has curated design/media arts exhibition/events for: 2010 Vancouver Olympics; V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam; New Museum, New York; and the Musée national des beaux arts du Québec. Her work has been featured internationally at festivals, galleries and museums: ISEA; SXSW; Siggraph; San José Museum of Quilts and Textiles; Museum of Science, Boston; Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Ghent; Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York; and FILE Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil.