The Creators Project

So around about 3 years ago I attended a college night at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). The main event was a talk by Anthony McCall, the "reknowned" creator of his film 1973 film, Line Describing a Cone, a 30 minute piece during which, basically, a beam of light from a 16mm film projector draws a perfect circle on a distant screen. It's highly avant-garde and also pretty boring - you can see it for yourself here.

But it's the works of artists like Mira Calix (left)that really put McCall to shame. Now available on The Creators Project site, a space created by Intel andVice Magazine to showcase and celebrate creativity and culture in different mediums around the world, you can watch her taking about her work here. Her latest piece involved her working with Universal Artists and involves 8 motorised pendulums. Because they operate with some freewill, throughout the works' twenty minute cycle it changes slightly each time as the sounds are triggered by the pendulums, which in turn trigger the lights. It kind of touches on the idea of Aleatoric music, a concept first tried out in the 1930's Modernist movement.

Anyway, check out www.thecreatorsproject.com, there are lots of cool artists and plenty more to discover!