People and affiliations

Moving Image Arts Research is creating a Knowledge Exchange Network across the arenas that together form the context for the practice of moving image capture and display.  We are doing this thought creating a set of affiliations with researchers, groups and institutions  from academia, the professions and from the cultural industries within moving image capture and display, as well as the related and equally important area of content creation and innovation. Our beginning aim is simply to create the ground work for creating a source of research excellence which is trusted by each of these sectors. Our mid-term aim is to create an online set of forums that connect members within and across specific groups and disciplines, in discussion spaces specific to subject. These will then be collected together within digests, either daily weekly or monthly. This will also become a shop window of ideas and resources for both undergraduate and postgraduate study.

Caroline Norbury, CEO and Founder of Creative England has just become a Visiting Professor at UWE and we're very glad to have her affiliated with Moving Image Arts Research.

Being focused on capture and display, we recognise the need to add one of the worlds foremost editors to help steer our research direction. This knowledge will aid the cinematographer in understanding what it is the person that constructs a moving image work needs, to aid in that construction. This is not simply just for organising standard narratives, but for innovating new forms of story telling and creation of moving image art. Thelma has been a constant innovator by breaking and reinventing editing rules to provoke unease in the audience as in King of Comedy, through to playing with thriller form in Shutter Island. She has been awarded three Oscars by AMPAS. (Thelma's awards and nominations on IMDB). We are in discussion with Thelma about affiliating with CMIR.

Sharon Calahan who was Director of Cinematography on Pixar's Finding Nemo and Toy Story Two is now a a member of the ASC and  CMIR affiliate.

CMIR were pleased to announce the affiliation of Professor Lev Manovich, a key thinker in the development of the theory of New Media.

Terry Flaxton with Thelma Schoonmaker

AFFILIATE FILMAKERS AND CINEMATOGRAPHERS
Renny Bartlett
Geoff Boyle
Roberto Shcaefer ASC, AIC
Ben Smithard BSC
David Stump ASC
Dave Riddet

See also from dropdown above:
Affiliate Academics from UWE
Affiliate Academics from Other Universities
Affiliate Cultural & Cinematic Organisations and Producers
Affiliate Independent Researchers and Artists

But we are also in discussion with a number of other high level industry talents to affiliate with CMIR - not only Oscar winning cinematographers, but directors and producers too. Initially these affiliations will aid students at UWE - recently we accomplished the CML/CMIR camera tests with Visiting Professor, Geoff Boyle FKBS, where students were exposed to industry personnel and test and prep practices and the highest level of cameras in the world (there were two Phantom Flex 4k prototypes being tested.) But we also hope to arrange internships with people on productions so that students can practice as well as research the act of film-making at the highest levels.
Below: The launch of  'A History of Video Art' Chris Meigh-Andrews, Beryl Korot, Mary Lucier, Peter Campus, Lori Zippay (Electronic Arts Intermix), Terry Flaxton