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Dr Ben Sherriff has recently completed a practice based PhD at Exeter University. Ben’s PhD thesis offers a new conceptual term in the academic study of the digital moving image, the idea of 'Digital Fluidity'. The concept argues that digital cinema and televisual technologies and the data medium offer a new fluid production mode where image capture, post-production and display have become more closely aligned; resulting in an enhanced opportunity for creativity and potentiality of new aesthetics and forms. His articulation is that this fluidity within the data medium is linked to a hybridity and inherent continuity with the historic technologies and techniques of the art form.
His career in broadcast and creative media production began at the age of ten years old as an actor in television. Having trained in his father’s photographic studio with 35mm and medium format photography it was a natural progression for him to move to the other side of the lens. Ben’s passion for the academic study of the image began as an undergraduate student at the University of Warwick and he has continued to develop his academic ideas throughout the early stages of his career in broadcast and film. He is currently operating professionally as a Camera Operator, Editor and DiT to further both his practical and theoretical studies and concerns
His career in broadcast and creative media production began at the age of ten years old as an actor in television. Having trained in his father’s photographic studio with 35mm and medium format photography it was a natural progression for him to move to the other side of the lens. Ben’s passion for the academic study of the image began as an undergraduate student at the University of Warwick and he has continued to develop his academic ideas throughout the early stages of his career in broadcast and film. He is currently operating professionally as a Camera Operator, Editor and DiT to further both his practical and theoretical studies and concerns