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Meshwork

Meshwork Video for the Trampoline Platform for New Media Art’s Attention Structure initiative designed to bring digital video art shorts to public screens across the UK and mainland Europe. Russell Richards, along with ten other digital film-makers, was chosen for this initiative.

“Trampoline is a platform for new media arts based in Nottingham and Berlin. Its purpose is to promote the innovations of emerging artists on both a local and international level, providing a platform for experimentation and new exposures while also encouraging new networks and discussions which contribute to education, research and development.”(Ota 2013)

Meshwork is a 'music-derived linear animation' i.e. the movement of animated objects on the screen is generated by the sound track then recorded for playback. Purpose-built software has been created that extracts the energy from the music and this then provides the parameters for the forms of animation in the scene. There is no immediate stimulus/response relationship between the sound and the resulting animations - this is deliberate. The advantage of this more subtle relationship is that there is a resultant musicality in the animation that complements that of the musicality of the sound track. The output is thus of a more complex and satisfying form.

Meshwork was premiered as part of the Frequency festival organised by the University of Lincoln, The Collection, the Usher Gallery, Lincolnshire County Council, Lincoln Drill Hall and Threshold Studios. The work was then shown at sites across Stravanger, Norway between March and April 2012