Art and technology

After admiring the traditional Around the World Christmas Tree display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, we were 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. (okay, maybe a dress with embedded LEDs won’t reshape the world, but the concept demonstrates 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/