ABOUT CMIR The Centre for Moving Image Research is dedicated to the task of investigating the role of moving images in today's changing world. It is led by Terry Flaxton, Professor of Cinematography and Lens Based Media. The CMIR logo shows Blake's image of Newton and Tekhne, the Goddess of Art, Science and Technology. We are interested in how innovations in technology, art and culture affect the production, content, politics and understandings of the value and meaning of moving images to the human species. CMIR are interested in how the history of the moving image can be rolled back beyond the birth of film, beyond Michael Faraday's experiments with electro-magnetism, beyond Joseph Baptiste Fourier's invention of discrete cosine and wavelet transforms, back to al-Kwarizimi’s invention of the concept of the algorithm in the ninth century (dependent as it was on the Hindu numbering system and its invention of the concept of '0' prior to the Christian era).