PhD Information
The Centre for Moving Image Research focuses on practice as research within the production and display of moving images in cinema, television and gallery exhibition. CMIR’s research areas are aesthetic, cultural, historical and technological.
If you're a PhD candidate we will aid your practice and your delivery. If there are practitioners with New Media requirements but are primarily moving image based we can negotiate with Digital Cultures Research Centre at UWE to co-supervise your work.
We have an increasing number of visiting professors to assist CMIR, such as academic and artist Chris Meigh-Andrews (A History of Video Art); Roberto Schaefer (cinematographer on The Kite Runner and Quantum of Solace), Geoff Boyle (cinematographer and originator of the Cinematography Mailing List).
The expertise of the centre is academic, but it is also artistic - Flaxton, Meigh-Andrews and other academics in the faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education are themselves practicing artists with exhibitions in many countries and forward commissions and collaborations. We also have theory focussed academics that you work with. For us it is not enough to make art - art has to be seen and so we recognise that with practice as research PhD's, the work must also be exhibited and its impact measured.
At the same time there is the interesting issue of what is art and what is research. Can research be Art? Can Art be research? Is there a way of thinking through the needs of both activities so that they can stand independently of each other? We have been through this conundrum and come out the other side better for our experiences and we hope to enable and empower candidates and doctoral students.
CMIR has access to 5 x Red 4k cameras to aid our work. Together with BBC Research and Development and the Bristol Vision Institute of University of Bristol, Flaxton helped capture and display the worlds first Higher Dynamic Range, Higher Frame Rate, Higher Resolution 'movie' in April 2013.
With regard high level cinematographic practice as you'll see from people who are working at the centre and with the centre - we are at the epicenter of the debate concerning the production of the digital image. We offer information on the production and display of the moving image that is second to none in the subject area.
CMIR are developing a festival of cinematography for March 2015, and a Festival of Digital Aesthetics for Spring 2016. Affiliates of CMIR are working artists and practitioners who exhibit their work internationally.
See latest Blog: More Thoughts about Practice as Research
If you're a PhD candidate we will aid your practice and your delivery. If there are practitioners with New Media requirements but are primarily moving image based we can negotiate with Digital Cultures Research Centre at UWE to co-supervise your work.
We have an increasing number of visiting professors to assist CMIR, such as academic and artist Chris Meigh-Andrews (A History of Video Art); Roberto Schaefer (cinematographer on The Kite Runner and Quantum of Solace), Geoff Boyle (cinematographer and originator of the Cinematography Mailing List).
The expertise of the centre is academic, but it is also artistic - Flaxton, Meigh-Andrews and other academics in the faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education are themselves practicing artists with exhibitions in many countries and forward commissions and collaborations. We also have theory focussed academics that you work with. For us it is not enough to make art - art has to be seen and so we recognise that with practice as research PhD's, the work must also be exhibited and its impact measured.
At the same time there is the interesting issue of what is art and what is research. Can research be Art? Can Art be research? Is there a way of thinking through the needs of both activities so that they can stand independently of each other? We have been through this conundrum and come out the other side better for our experiences and we hope to enable and empower candidates and doctoral students.
CMIR has access to 5 x Red 4k cameras to aid our work. Together with BBC Research and Development and the Bristol Vision Institute of University of Bristol, Flaxton helped capture and display the worlds first Higher Dynamic Range, Higher Frame Rate, Higher Resolution 'movie' in April 2013.
With regard high level cinematographic practice as you'll see from people who are working at the centre and with the centre - we are at the epicenter of the debate concerning the production of the digital image. We offer information on the production and display of the moving image that is second to none in the subject area.
CMIR are developing a festival of cinematography for March 2015, and a Festival of Digital Aesthetics for Spring 2016. Affiliates of CMIR are working artists and practitioners who exhibit their work internationally.
See latest Blog: More Thoughts about Practice as Research
PhD Supervisors
Terry Flaxton RWA, Professor of Cinematography and Lens Based Arts, CMIR, UWE
Andrew Spicer, Professor in Cultural History, UWE
John Cook, Professor of Learning Innovation
Chris Meigh-Andrews, Emeritus Professor in Electronic and Digital Art, UCLN, Visiting and Consultant Professor, CMIR
Gillian Swanson, Associate Professor, Director of Research Degrees, UWE
Centre Staff
Dr Steve Presence, Research Associate
Dr Sarah Sparke, Research Associate
Visiting Professors
Roberto Schaefer ASC, AIC, Visiting Professor
Geoff Boyle, Visiting Professor
Affiliate Cinematographers
Ben Smithard BSC
David Stump ASC
PhD Candidates
Adam Laity
Alex Neville
Terry Flaxton RWA, Professor of Cinematography and Lens Based Arts, CMIR, UWE
Andrew Spicer, Professor in Cultural History, UWE
John Cook, Professor of Learning Innovation
Chris Meigh-Andrews, Emeritus Professor in Electronic and Digital Art, UCLN, Visiting and Consultant Professor, CMIR
Gillian Swanson, Associate Professor, Director of Research Degrees, UWE
Centre Staff
Dr Steve Presence, Research Associate
Dr Sarah Sparke, Research Associate
Visiting Professors
Roberto Schaefer ASC, AIC, Visiting Professor
Geoff Boyle, Visiting Professor
Affiliate Cinematographers
Ben Smithard BSC
David Stump ASC
PhD Candidates
Adam Laity
Alex Neville