10 Great Things To See in the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago

After you see this piece, which was created by Ralph Ammer in cooperation with Stefan Sagmeister, you will likely be telling your friends about it. This remarkable interactive projection behaves like a visual web when you walk in front of it. It "catches" your image and reacts to your movements. It's a great work to share with children, and it feels like a sneak preview of technological ideas yet to come.

Curator Joe Rosa relished his new galleries that house this piece and combine the merging realms of architecture and design. "(The enhanced focus on design here) is essential. Design today is so much a part of our everyday youth culture but it's not just for youth. It's about sneaker-design type technology being used everywhere and in new kinds of ways. . . I hope people will come in and just be open to it."

The Architecture and Design galleries work chronologically, beginning with drawings from the museum's architecture collection and concluding with contemporary design objects. The piece above is located in the apporoximate center of the progression. Another highlight is Yves Béhar's fuseproject (in collaboration with Samsung) titled "Anime Terra."

Location: Architecture and Design Gallery, Second Floor

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