Michael Punt is a Professor of Art and Technology at the University of Plymouth and is Editor-in-Chief of Leonardo Reviews. He is a member of the Leonardo/ISATS Advisory Board, and the MIT/Leonardo Book Series Committee. He has had over one hundred exhibitions of his work including one person shows, made 15 films. He gained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam (Early Cinema and the Technological Imaginary, 2000) and has published over 80 articles on cinema history and digital technology for The Velvet Light Trap, Leonardo, Design Issues, Technoetic Arts and Convergence. Between 1996 and 2000 he was a regular contributor to Skrien, a Dutch journal of film and television criticism, where he wrote a monthly column on cinema, art and the Internet.
His most recent book, in collaboration with Robert Pepperell, “Screening Consciousness: Cinema, Mind and World’ (Rodopi 2006) follows their earlier collaboration, The Post-Digital Membrane: imagination technology and desire, (Intellect Books 2000). His essay ‘More Sign than Star: Diana, Death and the Internet’, is published in Stars in Our Eyes - the Star Phenomenon in the Contemporary Era, edited by Angela Ndalianis, (Westport: Praeger, 2002). His most recent major articles include ‘The Postdigital Analogue and Human Consciousness’, Leonardo 35 (2) and ‘A Taxi Ride to late Capitalism: Hypercapitalism, Imagination and Artificial Intelligence’ AI and Society (2002), The Martian in the Multiverse at www.refractory.unimelb.edu.au/journalissues/vol3/vol3.htm, (2003) ‘Orai and the Transdiciplinary Wunderkammer.’ Leonardo, 37 (3) (2003) ‘d-cinema-déjà-vu.’ Convergence. (2004) Renaming the Future. Leonardo 37 (2004) ‘A Postdigital Universe. Technoetic Arts. (2004), ‘What Shall We Do With All Those Old Bytes? Saving the Cinematic Imagination in the Postdigital Era.’ Design Issues. 21 (2).
A full list of publications, films and exhibitions can be found at: http://www.trans-techresearch.net
