Digital Bodies II
The scan of Mathias Steinls Maria Immaculata was successfully taken at the Liebieghaus. The raw scan data was later processed in the studio resulting in a clean mesh representation of the sculpture.
The aim for the analytical part of the workshop is to establish criteria which help you to evaluate, compare and discuss the variety of forms found on the 3d model. These criteria should be identified in 5 – 10 instances on the sculpture and evaluated in terms of the different articulations.
One reference is by John Ruskin where he studies various abstract curves. His work on aesthetics is recently being revisited by Lars Spuybroek in “The Sympathy of Things”. The reading of Ruskin or Spuybroek is not required to start the exercise but meant as pointers in a larger context. A second reference is a set of geometric tools for curvature analysis where the reading of the forms curvature and derivatives could help to map intensities.