art12 Spatial Studies ASSIGNMENT 3 part 1

Please download the free version of Sketchup - an easy-to-learn 3D visualization program:

http://sketchup.google.com

and do the video tutorials: http://sketchup.google.com/tutorials.html

Use sketchup to help visualize a proposed interior 'spatial complex' or 'sculptural event' for one of our satellite spaces. Options include the main Spatial Studies area, 'the cave', and the mezzanine. Other spaces may be considered, but could need special authorization.

It's OK to incorporate Sketchup drawings with other media, but at the very least you should use Sketchup to mock-up the space of your choice TO SCALE and print several different views of it to work over. Then it's OK to work however you like on the prints.

Later we'll start brainstorming ideas for the various spaces - the 'cave', mezzanine, and main atrium. During conceptualization don't restrict your ideas at all - not by feasibility, budget, or any other constraints. The idea is to negotiate projects as a group with the ideas that arise from this process of visualization. Measurements for the smaller spaces - not the main area - are posted on their doors.

Concerning the pedastel, cube, gallery, rectangle [on the wall], etc.,
and their relationships to making art:

http://www.lacma.org/beyondgeometry/investigations.html

Reading: 3 'manifestos'

Boccioni: http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/techsculpt.html

Bruce Mau: http://www.brucemaudesign.com/manifesto.html [again]

Burnham: http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/budgett/classes/art12/burnham2sculpture.pdf

a visualization from art 12 F07 for the 'cave' [Sketchup 'skp' file]:

Becky Hawkinson

another F07 for the mazzanine:

Julia Gibson

[both of the above people/projects contributed to]
the rain project from art 12 Fall 2007:

http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/budgett/media/rain.mov

http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~darkshard/rain/

Visualization: Dan Graham Video-Architecture-Television:

page 12, page 28, page 40, page 69