Art and technology

04 January 2010

After admiring the traditional Around the World Christmas Tree display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, I was quickly drawn into the avant-garde light display in a new exhibit. The exhibit, called Fast Forward ... Inventing the Future, showcases cutting edge inventions that will reshape our world. (Ok, maybe a dress with embedded LEDs won't reshape the world, but the concept demonstrates that technology that normally lives inside a pocket or purse is now acceptable for the outside world) MSI takes an artistic approach to showcase the inventions by appealing to all of one's senses– vibrant lights, techno sounds and designer steam. http://www.msichicago.org/whats-here/exhibits/fastforward/