art12 Spatial Studies ASSIGNMENT 3 part 1

VISUALIZATION

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

Using Sketchup, Google Earth, and Layout, develop a visualisation and presentation of one of the following:

  • a monument to something in relation to an interior or exterior site of your choice on the UCSB campus
  • an artistic/architectural improvement to [an] existing structure[s] on the UCSB campus
  • an alternative transport system that both obsoletes and re-uses existing parking space and auto routes at UCSB
  • solar, wave and/or wind power alternatives to existing UCSB power provisions
  • reflect on or utilize incongruities in the UCSB 'landscape'
  • after dark explorations of the UCSB campus using space, time, and light
  • an alternative use of the airspace above UCSB [and the Santa Barbara Airport?]
  • an installation in one of our satellite spaces [the mezzanine and the cave]

Get together as art12 on Facebook, exhibit your visualizations for the group. Be radical, ambitious, uncompromising at this stage; later, as a group, we will negotiate the proposals and plans for their realization. Of course we will not realize all proposals, but rather see what comes out of their 'negotiation'.

It's OK to incorporate Sketchup drawings with other media [to work on top of print-outs], but at the very least you should use Sketchup to mock-up the space of your choice and print several different views of it to work on.

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.


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


Visualization: Dan Graham Video-Architecture-Television:

page 12, page 28, page 40, page 69