Terry Flaxton announces the CMIR RWA bursaries at the RWA Autumn Open. 'Gold Hat' by Jonathan Farr is the winner of the CMIR prize which is on show at the RWA until 7th December
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). WHAT'S ON Next:
From 25th October the RWA in Bristol will be exhibiting CMIR's bursary pieces for Moving Image Art - FFI see the CMIR/RWA blog page
24th/25th January 2015 CML and CMIR will be staging their new camera Tests February 2015 CMIR will be bringing the Jarman award winning moving image artist , Jon Smith to UWE March CMIR will be co-organising with the Watershed the Bristol International Festival of Cinematography as well as organising a key conference on changes in moving image training in the UK What We've just done
Terry Flaxton gave a lead presentation on 'The Future of Moving Images' at 'The Mediated City' Architectural Conference in Los Angeles early October 2014
23rd September we presented what CMIR do at Bournemouth's BFX Symposium - with keynotes by Lev Manovich and Sean Cubitt On 20th Sept Chris Meigh-Andrews presented a new 360 projection version of one of the time lapse animations from his Monument Project at the 23rd Internationale Panoramakonferenz in Altötting, Germany, (with specially composed music by Chris Bush, post-production by Stuart Moore) http://www.meigh-andrews.com/archives/4419. 19th September CMIR staged a Symposium on the concept of Radicalism at Bristol's Arolfini Between 15th and 21st September CMIR and Bristol Vision Institute of University of Bristol ran an HDR Capture and Display Lab at Bristol's Encounters On 12th September Terry Flaxton exhibited a new installation 'Reflection on Water' attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury at Bristol Cathedral at their event 'Standing Room Only Bursary Blog
CML/CMIR Camera Tests Higher Dynamic Range Research Upcoming Conference: Political Cinema for the 21st Century CMIR Conference: Digital Cinematography and its opportunities Papers and Theses by CMIR personel and Affiliates:
The Future of the Moving Image Flaxton The Production of Higher Dynamic Range Video Price et al Without Thresholds: Contemporary Artist’s Video: Diversity of Form, Possibility and Potential Meigh-Andrews The Social Construction of the Meanings of Price Sparke The Contemporary Landscape of Video-Activism in Britain Presence Visualising Vertov, Manovich L |
Latest Research
HDR CAPTURE AND DISPLAY
CMIR are proud to announce that at our recent Higher Dynamic Range Laboratory we achieved production of HDR Capture and DIsplay at both the intermediate position between Rec 709 and Rec 2020 (9 FStops) but also we created the preliminary pathway for 20 stop HDR images - we'll be publishing results shortly. See HDR Laboratory. PIN HOLE LENSES ON 4K CAMERAS
Lucy WIlliams CMIR/RWA Bursary Winner, helped by a technical team from UWE and CMIR, created colour moving images using pinhole photography with a Red One Camera - We believe this is a first use and creation of 4k lensless moving images This new work is called 'Aperture'. Capture was at 3200 ASA, 25 fps, 5600 Kelvin, 4.5k resolution 2.33 aspect ratio through a 'pin hole' lens. For comparison we also used a 50mm Zeiss compact prime lens at T2.1, ISO100 with seven stops of ND to match the depth of field of the pin hole lens.
The CMIR RWA Busrasry pieces will be exhibited at the RWA from 25th October and the works themselves will also appear on this website shortly. Resources
Films Affiliates have worked on:
Quantum of Solace, The Kite Runner Roberto Schaefer ASC AIC The Mutant Chronicles, Dark Country Geoff Boyle FBKS X-Men, X-MEN2 David Stump ASC Visual FX DP My Week with Marylin, Belle, Ben Smithard BSC, Thor: the Dark World Green Zone Jonathan Smiles Finding Nemo, Toy Story 2 Sharon Calahan The Wrong Trousers, Aardman Animations, Nick Park Research and Teaching Resources:
The Verbatim History of Digital Cinematography CMIR Notes on Digital Workflows Flaxton Digital Cinematography CMIR The Verbatim History of Analogue Video CMIR Collected Text based Resources CMIR The Look From Capture To Display - Symposium Books by CMIR personnel and Affiliates:
Digital Cinematography: Fundamentals, Tools, Techniques and Workflows David Stump, Affiliate Cinematographer A History of Video Art Chris Meigh-Andrews, Visiting Professor Software Takes Command: Lev Manovich, Affiliate Academic |
Lead by Terry Flaxton CMIR Moving Image Research Centre of Moving Image Research The Future of the Moving Image Research High Definition 4K stereoscopy 3D Higher Dynamic Range Higher Frame Rate Augmented Reality New Media super Hi Vision
Marie Curie Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions UWE ACE CMIR