About 400 students entering the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) Sept. 13 were greeted by spinning metal fans dangling inches from the crowd's heads.

The SFMOMA gave local and international students a chance to interact with digital projections, watch a band play in collaboration with light generated art and dance to interpretive dance music for free as part of College Night, an annual event.

Anthony McCall, a British artist who talked about his interactive work “You and I, Horizontal,” that is currently on display at the museum described the meaning behind his light work to a crowd inside the Wattis Theater.

McCall said “You and I, Horizontal,” is a three-dimensional experience that can’t be looked at from one side. “You have to move around to get the whole experience,” he said, “You can’t just look at it from one point.”

McCall treated about 100 students to another interactive screening of his film Line Describing a Cone (1973). The crowd faded into black as the room became dark with a single beam of projected light. Curious audience members grabbed and poked at the telepathic ellipse.

“Experiencing art where we actually don’t know what is going to happen is a pretty unique experience.” said Ashley Kircher, a 28-year-old arts and museum studies major at SF State.

While some students were experiencing McCall’s work, others were touring the museum looking at other art like the SFMOMA’s newest exhibit, Take Your Time by artist Olafur Eliasson that opened on Sept. 8. An observer of Eliasson’s work does not only view the art but become pieces of art themselves,

“One of my favorite things I saw was 360E Room Full of Colours by Olafur Eliasson,” said Lucy Campbell a Scottish art student visiting San Francisco on vacation. In 360E, observers don’t only view the art but become pieces of art themselves, consuming physical consciousness, temperature and light. She said that the experience of being in a room surrounded by light that changes was a phenomenal experience. “Everyone should check it out, it’s wicked,” she said.

The night was finished by a live set from Crime in Choir with visuals by Anthony McCall inside the Wattis Theater. Others weren’t so lucky-- a crowd of 15 people surrounding the Wattis Theater could not get into the theater, because tickets were sold out.

“I really wanted to see [Crime in Choir] play, but I didn’t get a ticket,” said Mairi Griffin who is friends with Campbell and an art student at Strath University in Glasgow, Scotland. “It was confusing, and no one told us that we had to switch tickets to see Crime in Choir play.”