CURRICULUM VITAE

Prof. dr. Michael Punt, BA MA PhD ILTA,

Professor of Art and Technology, University of Plymouth

Editor-in-Chief Leonardo Reviews,

Head of FWF PEEK Board.

Education, Teaching and Research Appointments:

Michael Punt is a Professor of Art and Technology at the University of Plymouth and an international co-editor for Leonardo and Editor-in-Chief of Leonardo Reviews.

He is the founding convenor of the Transtechnology Research Group which has a constituency of more than 20 international doctoral, post-doctoral and visiting researchers who use a range of practice and theory-based methods. Topics currently being researched concern the historical and philosophical aspects of nineteenth century media and contemporary digital technology, cinema and the technological imaginary, cognitive aspects of industrial design, affective interaction and instrumentation, spatial awareness in scientific representation, sustainable new materials for artefact engineering, simulation in clinical training, and applied clinical simulation in ODAs. He has directed over 30 PhD completions.

            Michael Punt has practiced and exhibited internationally as a sculptor and film maker and taught in Art Schools and Universities continuously from 1969. In 1992 he was awarded a 4-year bursary from the University of Amsterdam and brought, historical research begun in 1989 at UEA and his film practice to bear on a new history of early cinema. Subsequently this research was applied to a wider consideration of the cognitive determinants of technological form in audio visual media and this informs his current research. He has jointly produced two books, made 16 films and published over 100 articles on cinema history and digital technology in key journals. Between 1996 and 2000 he was a monthly columnist for Skrien, the Dutch journal of audiovisual media, commenting on the interaction between the internet and cinema as it was developing. His research has been supported by funding from the AHRC, and the EU through HERA and Marie Curie. His current research brings art practice and historical criticism into a unified publishing platform.

            He is a panel member and reviewer for a number of national funding bodies including those in Austria, Canada, Portugal and the European Commission. He is Head of the FWF PEEK Board that distributes ±€7m funding for Arts led research in any discipline.  For ten years he was a member of the AHRC PRC and supported the Council in a number of training and advisory capacities and was a member of the Strategic Reviewer Group, RiR, and UK JHEP advisory board on cultural heritage. He is currently a member of the UKRI FLF College Panel. His current academic functions at Plymouth are supporting doctoral and post-doctoral researchers, supporting the research strategy and leading interdisciplinary research projects.

            In 2019, along with a small group of educationalists, he established the Schumacher Society as a registered charitable trust in order to deliver post graduate research training to a distributed world-wide community of artists and scholars.

Service: (Bold = ongoing or periodic)

2024 Co Chair, FCT Tenure Awards

2024 Chair, Czech Science Foundation. Chair EX7 Humanities Panel

2023- UKRI FLF Panel College

2022-2025 FWO Review College.

2022 Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal. Board.

2021-2027 Head of FWF PEEK Board

2021 Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal. Board.

2020- Editor, Place.

2020 Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal. Board.

2019 FWF, Belgium, Fellowship Awards.

2018 AXA Research fund.

2018 National Science Centre, Poland.

2018-2024 Czech Science Foundation.

2018 Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal. Stimulus of Scientific Employment,

2018-2021 FWT Austria, Art and Media Board Member PEEK Awards.

2017 AHRC Creative Clusters Reviewer.

2017 Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal; Cultures and Cultural Production Evaluation Panel.

2016-2022 ESF College of Expert Reviewers.

2016 GCRF Large Gants follow-on-funding panel.

2015 AHRC Fellowships Panel 5. (Chair)

2015 AHRC Fellowships Panel 3. (Chair).

2014 AHRC Research Grants Panel.

2014 AHRC Fellowships Panel 2.

2014 AHRC Fellowships Panel 1.

2014-17 Reviewer, FWT (Austrian Science Fund).

2013 AHRC Digital Transformations in the Community Panel.

2013 Reviewer, FWT (Austrian Science Fund).

2013 National Endowment for the Humanities, Digging into Data Panel

2013 Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal; Cultures and Cultural Production Evaluation Panel.

2013-16 AHRC Strategic Reviewers Group.

2012 Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal; Cultures and Cultural Production Evaluation Panel.

2012 UK Advisory Council on Cultural Heritage, JHEP.2011.

2011-12 AHRC Research Grant Panel 2

2010 Research Steering Committee. Humanities as a Source of Creativity (HERA).

2010 Metadesign Network, Kyung Hee University S. Korea.

2010 Steering Committee. ISEA 2011.

2010 European Science Foundation, Reviewer Pool

2009 TIF Forum, YonseiUniversity, Seoul.

2009 Advisor, Technology-Imagination-Future: Journal for Transdisciplinary Knowledge

2008 Academy Science and Arts of Finland. Reviewer.

2008 Scientific Committee. Less Remote. International Congress of Astronauts.

2007 RCUK, Science in Society, Advisory group, RiR Scheme.

2007 Board, Great Western Research.

2007 Contributing Editor, Consciousness, Literature and the Arts.

2007 Reader, Rodopi Press.

2007 Trustee, Jago Eliot Foundation.

2007- Editorial Board, Journal of Writing and Creative Practice.

2006-2010 AHRC Postgraduate Awards Panel.

2005-2016 AHRC Peer Review College.

2005-2018 AHRB PGR panel - AHRC PRC – AHRC PRC training support

2003- Editorial Board, Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media.

2003- Academic referee. Intellect Books.

2001- Board. Leonardo Book Series, MIT Press.

2001- Advisor, academic referee, MIT Press/Leonardo Book Series.

2000- Leonardo/ISAST International Advisory Board.

1999-2005 Academic referee, Convergence, Artificial Life and Society.

1998- Academic Referee, Leonardo.

1998- Editor-in-Chief, Leonardo Reviews.

Research Degree Completions (DoS):

Professor Bill Seaman, Thesis: Recombinant Poetics; Emergent Meaning as Examined and Explored within a Specific Generative Virtual Environment (1999).

Dr. Jonathan Bedworth, Thesis: AL Programming for Musical Composition (2001).

Dr. Martha Blassnigg. The Cinema and its Spectatorship: The Spiritual Dimension of the ‘Human Apparatus’ (UoW 2007).

Prof. Chris Speed. A Social Dimension for Digital Architectural Practice (2007).

Dr. Stephen Thompson. Industrial Design Discourses (2008).

Prof. John Vines. Aging Futures: Cognitively Inclusive Digital Media Products. [DoS] 2010(AHRC)

Dr. Hannah Drayson, Gestalt Biometrics and their Applications; Instrumentation, Objectivity and Poetics. (EPSRC) [DoS] (2011)

Dr. Martyn Woodward. Sensual Communication: Toward and Embodied Model of Visual Communication. [DoS] (2013) (ESF)

Dr. David MacConville. On The Evolution of Heavenly Spheres. 2013.

Dr. Joanna Griffin, Changing Space: The Social and Experiential Culture of Spacecraft and the Public Domain [DoS] (AHRC) (2014).

Dr. Rita Cachao, The Mis-en-abyme of Space: Towards an artistic methodology to approach the ontology of space as a methodological tool. [DoS] (FTC. 2015)

Dr. Taslima Begum, (Transtechnology Research). Design and Post Colonialism. [DoS] (UoW. 2015)

Dr. Marcio Rocha. New routes to Human Computer Interaction: Reconciling the Artificial with Human Nature. [DoS] (2015) (CAPES)

Dr. Claudy Op den Kamp. Copyright Law and the Re-Use of Archival Footage. [DoS] (2015) (UoP)

Dr. Phil Ellis. Reenacting Television History. [DoS] ( UoP 2017).

Amanda Egbe. Mphil. Notions on Radical Image Archive Practice. [DoS] (UoP, 2016)

Dr. Edith Doove. Curation and the Inframince. [DoS] (2017)

Dr. Eugenia Stamboliev. Animatronic Robot Morality and Ethics. [DoS] (UoP 2017)

Dr.  Abigail Jackson. Autism and Performance Approaches. [DoS] (2019. AHRC).

Dr.  Guy Edmonds. Early Cinema and  the Cognitive Impact of Digital Projection [DoS] (EU 2020)

Dr.  Agi Haines. Ides Exchange Understanding the Human Object. [DoS] (UoP 2021)

Dr.  Jacqui Knight. The Contact Sheet as a Conduit to Creativity. [DoS] (UoP 2021)

Dr . Heidi Morstang. Intuitive Interventions: Constructing Documentary Cinematic Narratives. [DoS] (UoP 2021) 

Dr.  Jane Hutchinson. A Media Archaeology of Technologies of Enchantment. [DoS] (2022)

Dr. Stephanie Moran, (Symbiont Encounters: Ecological Fictioning and Networked Media. (2022)

Paul Finnegan.  The digital image according to its hieroglyphic and animistic capacities (2022).

Dr. James Sweeting. The Impact of Nostalgia on Videogame Form [DoS] (2023)

Dr Linan Zhang. International Development and KE in Clinical Contexts. (2024)

Dr Nick Peres. Immersive Cinematics in Medical Simulation. (2024)

Current PhD supervision:

Alsaad, A., (2015- ) Creative Psychotherapy including Art (working title) [DoS]

Johara Bellali., [DoS]A Scenography of Inscription and Intangibles in the Birthing Room. (2019) [DoS]

Brodskis, B,. (2016-) Post-digital scribing: valuing the point of intersection [DoS]

Crabtree, T., (2017) Sustainable Affordable Housing. [DoS]

Doughety, S., Altered States and Media Form. (2023)

Gerhradt, F., (2023) Visualising Neurodiversity.

Guy, L., (2018) Artist designed systems in Community Radio. (2018-)

Peres, N., (2014-) Immersive cinematics in medical simulation: interfaces for the patient voice [DoS]

Schneider, J., (2018-) How can a culture of spontaneity be sustained from within the imperatives of goal/outcome-oriented human endeavour? (working title) [DoS]

Xiaorong Wang. (2022-) Materialist Curation.

Welsman, L., (2019-) Sublime onto-aesthetics: quantum qualities of art across media [DoS]

Linan Zang, L., (2019-) International Development and KE in Clinical Contexts.

Technology and Culture

- Art and technology
- Science and technology as a history of ideas
- Popular interpretations of science in the late nineteenth century

Film Studies and Cinema History

- Early cinema and technology
- Early film form
- Cinema history and theory

Technology and Historiography

- Interpretations of nineteenth century ideas in science and technology

Research Grants:

Large Grants:

2013 - 2016 Contributing-Investigator, (PI Prof Sue Denham) EU FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network, ‘CogNovo: Cognitive Innovation’. €4.1m. This grant funded 14 PhD bursaries. Parallel to this scheme Plymouth University also funded 12 UK doctoral bursaries for research at the intersection of cognition, creativity, the arts and humanities.

2010 – 2013 PI and Project Leader, project “Technology, Exchange and Flow: Artistic Media Practices and Commercial Application”. Funded by HERA, Humanities in the European Research Area. Value € 1M. Co-investigator, Dr. Martha Blassnigg. (Delivered in collaboration with VU University Amsterdam, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Eye Film Institute Netherlands, Institute for Sound and Vision Hilversum).

Small Grants:

2022 Devon Community Assets Research Collaborative - developing, understanding and linking within Integrated Care Systems. (AHRC Health Disparities funding).

2022 Anxious ‘tells’: Working with patients and dentists to reveal signs and triggers of stress and anxiety in the clinic. Medical Protection Society Foundation. (100k) CI

2021 HEE and CDF research grant 30k (Digital Literacy) PI

2021 PIHR, remote electives and VR clinical training. (4k). PI

2020 UoP and HEE, 30k TaACT. https://www.trans-techresearch.net/research/research-projects/simulation-lab/ PI

2018 AHRC. Technology Exchange and Flow: India. (£29k.) PI

2018 Torbay and South Devon Hospital Trust with UoP. Empathy and Animatronic Simulation. (lit. review and field study) (30k.) PI

2012/13 HERA Knowledge Transfer project “Advertising and the Sublime”. Delivered in collaboration with Utrecht University, EYE Film Institute Netherlands and Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Co-investigator, Dr. Martha Blassnigg.  (€ 44k) PI

2011 – 2013 Principal Investigator; International Network for Transdisciplinary Research (INTR), Plymouth. University. Bringing together experts from the sciences and humanities to develop transdisciplinary methodologies. Value £22,000. PI

2010 Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellow Grant (for Prof. Jahrmann at Plymouth ). PI

2007 Project Leader, AHRC ICT Methods Network Workshop: Immersive Vision Theatres and Strategies for Knowledge Transfer, Value £ 2.500. Co-investigator, Dr. Blassnigg.

2006 Port Eliot, and AFoundation, research grant  Extraordinary Connections £6,000. PI

2005 Wellcome Trust/Theatre Royal Plymouth (TR2), research grant. Physical Theatre and Knowledge Transfer. £1,000 PI

2005 Wellcome Trust/ Theatre Royal Plymouth, small research grant, Theatre of Science.

1992 -1996 Assistente in Opleiding Film en televisiewetenschap, (Doctoral research bursary) University of Amsterdam.

Bursaries attached to research projects:

2019 Wotelsat, China. PhD Scholarship.

2018 AHRC  (3D3) PhD Scholarship.

2018 UoP PhD Scholarship.

2016 NHS England, Amplified Empathy in Clinical Training, PhD Scholarship.

2016 AHRC, (3D3) PhD Scholarship (two).

2013 MARIE CURIE (ITN), PhD Scholarship (four).

2013 AHRC, (3D3), Touch Therapy in Autistic Contexts.

2010 CAPES, Brazil PhD Scholarships (two).

2010 HERA, PhD Scholarship.

2009 UoP, PhD Scholarship.

2009 AHRC, PhD Scholarship.

2008 FCT Portugal, PhD Scholarship.

2006 AHRC, PhD Scholarship.

2005 EPSRC, PhD Scholarship.

2004 University of Wales.

2003 University of Wales.

Papers and Publications Since 2000:

Artworks and Chapters:

2024 The Stolen Tone Poem. Place 6. (Ed. Baetens, J.) (In Press)

2023 Visualizing the Untranslateable. (Catalogue Essay), Heidi Morstang: Field Observations.

2023 Paris Par Arrondissement.  Place 5. (Ed. Baetens, J.)

2022 The Double Life of Things. Place 4.  (Ed. Baetens, J.)

2020 The World Viewed and the Broken Planets.  Place 2. (Ed. Baetens, J.)

2019 Place Anecdote, Theory and Practice and a Young Princess.  Place. (Ed. Baetens, J.) https://www.place-plateforme.com/michael-punt%2c-place.html.

2019 Hogarth, The Man Who Copyrighted Himself. In: Op den Kamp, C., & Hunter, D. (Eds.).  A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp.49-58.

2018 ''The Munsterberg ‘Problem’: Between Mind and Soul', in Steinmetz, R, (Ed.) A Treasure Trove. Friend of the Photoplay – Visionary – Spy? New Trans-disciplinary Approaches to Hugo Münsterberg’s Life and Oeuvre, Leipzig: Universitätsverlag. pp. 129-142.

2016 The Technological Imaginary and the Cognitive Trace. In: Avanca Cinema, Avanca: Editions Cine-Cube Avanca. pp.1122-1131.

2015 Technology Desire and Imagination. In: Ascott, R. Molina, A. eds. Beyond Darwin: The Co-evolutionary Path of Art, Technology and Consciousness. Valencia: Impremata Provincal. pp157-168 and pp. 260-268.

2013 Start Playing. In: Jahrman, M., Felderer, B. (eds). Play/Prosume – Schleichende Werbung und schnelle Avantgarde. Nuernberg: Verlag fuer Moderne Kunst, pp. 43-48.

2013 Blassnigg, Martha, Punt, Michael. Transdisciplinarnost: izzivi, pristopi in priložnostina pragu zgodovine, trans. Ana Flac, Helena Fošnjar, Snežana Štabi. In: (NE)ODVISNI (NE)ZAVISNI INDEPENDENT. (eds.) Snežana Štabi, Žiga Dobnikar, Dejan Pestotnik. Slovenia: KID / ACE KIBLA, pp.14-28, pp. 84-95 and pp. 151-163.

2013 Image, Light and the Passage to the Semi-Material Object. In: Blassnigg, M et al. (eds) Light Image and Imagination. Amsterdam: AUP, pp. 193-214.

2013 Blassnigg, M., Punt, M. Transdisciplinarity: Challenges, Approaches and Opportunities on the Cusp of History. SEAD: http://seadnetwork.wordpress.com/draft-overview-of-a-report-on-the-sead-white-papers/

2011 Grinding A Ridge. In: Kluszczynski, R. (ed.) W strone trzeciej kultury. Koegz ystencjasztuki, nauki i technologii. Towards the Third Culture. The Co-existence ofArt, Science and Technology. Gdansk: Laznia CCA, pp. 110-123.

2011 Combinando Tecnologias: primeiro cinema, cultura popular e o imaginário tecnológico (transl. by Cleomar Rocha and Júlio César dos Santos), Z Cultural, Revista Virtual do Programa Avançado de Cultural Contemporânea, Ano VII(02), ISSN1980-9921. [Online]. Available at: http://revistazcultural.pacc.ufrj.br/combinando-tecnologias-primeiro-cinema-cultura-popular-e-o-imaginario-tecnologico-michel-punt/ (Accessed: 16 December 2011).

2010 Accidental Machines: The impact of Popular Participation on Computer Technology. In: The Designed World: Images, Objects, Environments Victor Margolin (Author, Editor), Dennis Doordan (Author), Richard Buchanan (Author, Editor), Dennis P. Doordan (Editor). Oxford: Berg, pp. 167-188.

2009 Technology and Metaphor. REAL Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. Ed. Herbert Grabes, Ansgar Nünning. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, pp. 315-328.

2008 Synchrony and the Semi-Material Object. In: Ascot, R., et al New Realities: Being Syncretic. Springer: New York, pp. 224-228.

2008 Play Orbit: jungando con la historia del juego – Play Orbit a Play on the History of Play. In: Dragona, D., et.al. (eds). Homo Ludens Ludens. Gijon: Laboral, pp. 134-149 and pp. 254-260

2008 Reflections in a Laser Disc. In: Kooijman, J., Pisters, P., Strauven, W., (eds.) Mind the Screen: Media Concepts according to Thomas Elsaesser. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 267-276.

2006 Introduction. In: Punt, M., Pepperell, R., (eds). Screen Consciousness: cinema, mind and world. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp.13-27.

2006 Shaping Consciousness: New Media, Spirituality, and Identity. In: Punt, M., Pepperell, R., (eds). Screen Consciousness: cinema, mind and world. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 60-73.

2006 Another View from the Blender. In: Roy Ascott, Engineering Nature: Art and Consciousness in The Post-biological Era. Intellect: Bristol, pp. 39-47.

2003 (with Robert Pepperell). Art at the Boundary of Science and Consciousness. In: Emma Posey, ed. Remote. Cardiff: Bloc Press, pp. 21-26.

2003 The Postdigital Multiverse. In: Katia Maciel, ed. Redes Sensoriais: arteciência, technologia. Rio de Janeiro: Contra Capa Livaria, pp. 309 – 317.

2003 The Jelly Baby on My Knee. In F. Elvers, L. vd Velden, P. vd Wenden, eds. The Art of Programming. Amsterdam: Sonic Acts Press, pp. 40-47.

2002 More Sign than Star: Diana, Death and the Internet. In: A. Ndalianis, ed. Stars in Our Eyes: The Star Phenomenon In the Contemporary Era. Westport: Greenwood Press, pp. 85-102.

2001 Not Science or History: postdigital biological art and a distant cousin. In: R. Ascott, ed. Art, Technology, Consciousness: mind@large. Exeter: Intellect Books, pp. 24-28.

1999 Casablanca and Men in Black: consciousness, remembering and forgetting. In: R. Ascott, Reframing Consciousness. Exeter: Intellect, pp. 38-42. Also, at http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/articles/punt1.html, (Leonardo Electronic Almanac).

Books:

2006 with Pepperell, R. (Eds.)  Screen Consciousness: cinema, mind and world. Amsterdam> Rodipi.

2003 (Ed.) Proceedings of the Fourth CAiia Conference. Consciousness Reframed. Perth: University of Curtin.

2000 with Pepperell, R.  The Postdigital Membrane: connecting Imagination, technology and desire. Exeter: Intellect, (revised 2006).

2000 Early Cinema and the Technological Imaginary. Chepstow:Postdigital Press

Refereed Journal Articles:

2024 Artificial Intelligence and the Technological Imaginary. Leonardo. (in Press)

2017 and Denham, S. Cognitive Innovation, Irony and Collaboration. Avant. Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies.pp.15-22.

2017 and Denham, S. Creativity and Cognitive Innovation: A View From the Bridge. Leonardo 50:2

2017 Science, Culture and Epigenetics. Leonardo 50:2

2016 Cognitive Innovation and the Cognitive Trace. Leonardo, Endnote. DoI10.1162/LEON_e_01194.

2016 From Soul to Mind: A History of an Idea. Leonardo, Vol . 48, No. 2 p.108 (editorial).

2016 Cognitive Innovation the Very Idea. Leonardo, 49:3

2011 Combinando Tecnologias: primeiro cinema, cultura popular e o imaginário tecnológico, de Michel Punt – tradução Cleomar Rocha e Júlio César dos Santos, Z Cultural 02.

2008 ‘Play Orbit: a Play on the History of Play’, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research 6:2, pp. 135-148.

2006 with Blassnigg, M., Surman, D., From Mélièse to Galaxy Quest: the Dark Matter of Human Imagination. Leonardo, 39 (1), pp. 13-18 + p.30 illus.

2005 What Shall We Do With All Those Old Bytes? Saving the Cinematic Imagination in the Postdigital Era. Design Issues. 21 (2), pp. 48-62.

2005 Ars Electronica 2004 Timeshift – the world in twenty-five years Linz 02.09.04-07.09. 04. Convergence. London: John Libby, pp.12-15.

2004 Orai and the Transdiciplinary Wunderkamer. Leonardo, 37 (3), pp. 21-23.

2004 d-cinema-déjà-vu. Convergence. London: John Libby, pp. 14-28.

2004 Renaming the Future. (Editorial) Leonardo, 37 (1), pp. 3-5.

2004 Ars Electronica: an Overview. I’Journal. New Delhi: Habitat Center: India.

2004 A Postdigital Universe. Technoetic Arts. (1)3, pp. 191-200.

2003 The Martian in the Multiverse. Refractory. 3. http://www.ahcca.unimelb.edu.au/refractory/pp.1-19.

2002 A Taxi Ride to Late Capitalism: Hyper Capitalism, Imagination, and Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence and Society. (16) 4, pp. 366-376.

2002 New Media and Transdisciplinarity. Tom.com http://arts.tom.com/zhuanti/punt/index.html also at: http://arts.tom.com/zhuanti/hszsd/index.html

2002 The Postdigital Analogue and Human Consciousness. Leonardo. 35 (2), pp.119-120.

2002 Ars Electronica. Leonardo. 35 (2), pp. 220-221.

2002 Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, 1-6 September 2001(review): Convergence. 8(1), pp. 102-106.

2002 Symbiotic A: fish and chips. Art Press, pp. 43-44.

2001 Post Classical Cinema and the Digital Image. Convergence. 6(2), pp. 62-76.

Reviews: Leonardo

2023 Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900 by Viktoria Tkaczyk

2023 Is Consciousness Everywhere? Essays in Panpsychism By Philip Goff and Axel Moran, Editor.

2023 Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 Jeffrey West Kirkwood

2022 Words of Weather: A Glossary by Jussi Parikka and Daphne Dragona, Editors

2022 Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon by Barbara Cassin, Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, and Michael Wood

2022 Type Specimens: A Visual History of Typesetting and Printing by Dori Griffin

2020 Medical Technics by Don Idhe

2020 Renaissance Futurities: Science, Art, Invention by Charlene Villaseñor Black, Mari-Tere Álvarez, Editors

2019 The Joy of Search: A Google Insider’s Guide to Going Beyond the Basics by Daniel Russell

2019 Ribbons of Darkness: Inferences from the Shadowy Arts and Sciences Barbara Maria Stafford

2018 Seeing: How Light Tells Us About the World by Tom Cornsweet

Refereed Papers:

2009 Swing Time: Technology as/&/as Metaphor. Justus Leibig University, Giessen.

2008 Synchrony and the Semi-material Object. University of Applied Art, Vienna.

2008 Play Orbit: A Reflection on the History of Play. Laboral; Gijon.

2007 Visions Without Light: Crookes, Cinema, Noctovision and the Passage to the Semi-Material Object. Research Futures. Contemporary Art Center, Pecci Museum, Prato.

2007 Between Thought and Matter, The Final Frontier. Mutamorphosis, Prague.

2007 Technologyand Desire. Science and the Public. Imperial College, London.

2007 Contingent Realities: The Role of the Creative Arts. Reviewing the Future, Cœur des Sciences, University of Quebec, Montreal.

2006 Homomundus: Human-Digital Crossing: Art and Mind, SESC, Sao Paulo.

2006 Mexico-who is he? Consciousness Reframed: art in the post-biological era. University of Plymouth, UK.

2006 Paper Cinema and self The Interpretation of a Technology. Panel Discussant “Cinema, mind, world – toward a new methodology in the uses of cinema for anthropology”: European Association of Cultural Anthropologists Bristol.

2006 with Blassnigg and Czegledy. Surface/Interface, Perception and Space Exploration 57thInternational Academy of Astronauts, Valencia.

2006 with Blassnigg and Czegledy. Expanding the Space: Conference and Workshop on Science and Art, Valencia. Octobre Centre de Cultura Contemporania.

2006 with Blassnigg, M. Toward a New Cosmography: Space and Time. 25thInternational Space Development Conference, Los Angeles.

2006 Cinema and Consciousness: Model, Paradigm or Simulacra. Toward a Science of Consciousness. Center for the Science of Consciousness, University of Arizona.

2005 The PostDigital Analogue and the Metaphysics of Immanence. Consciousness, Literature and the Arts. University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

2004 More Schwarzengger than Schönberg. Shaping Consciousness: New Media, Spirituality and Identity. Dallas Museum of Art.

2005 Cinema and Clairvoyance. Interfacing Theory and Practice, University of Exeter.

2005 The Social Construction of Space and Ethics. First IAA International Conference, Budapest, Hungary.

2004 Panel convenor and chair: The Future of Certainty, (Blassnigg, Engili, Malina,Pepperell, Punt). Society for Literature and Science, Paris.

2004 The Future of Uncertainty. Ciberarts, Bilbao.

2004 From Mélièse to Galaxy Quest: the Dark Matter of Human Imagination. Space Arts Workshop, Noordwijk.

2003 Not Science or History. Sensorial Nets. Dragao Do Mar, Forteleza.

2003 Another View From The Blender. Society for Literature and Science 17th Annual Conference. University of Texas, Austin.

2003 Another View From the Blender. Consciousness Reframed 5. CAiiA.

2002 The Transdisciplinary Wunderkammer and Orai. ISEA 2002. Nagoya.

2002 Human Consciousness and the Post Digital Analogue, Biennial of Electronic Art, Perth.

2002 Art at the Boundary of the Science of Consciousness. Toward a Science of Consciousness. Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona.

2000 The Technological Imaginary. Moving Images: Technologies, Transitions, Historiographies, Stockholm University.

2000 Pain, Memory and Seduction. Consciousness Reframed III. Centre for Advanced Inquiry into Interactive Arts, Caerleon.

Journalism for Skrien: Tijdschrift voor Film en Televisie (ISSN 0166-1787)

2001 Moving Images: Technologies, Transitions. Skrien, 34.2, pp. 11-12.

2001 Catching Up with the Present: Le Giornate del Cinema Muto. Skrien, 251, p. 16

2000 Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna 2000. Skrien, 249, pp. 10-11.

2000 On Visual Culture. Skrien, 247, p. 32.

2000 The Long Goodbye. Skrien, 244, p. 24.

2000 To Infinity and Beyond. Skrien, 243, p. 26.

2000 Live from Death Valley. Skrien, 242, p. 26.

2000 ThePost-Digitaal. Skrien, 241, p. 29.

2000 The Ghost at the Feast. Skrien, 240, p. 41.

1999 Ubiquitous Computing. Skrien, 239, p. 49.

1999 Coffee with a Little Milk; the future of the magazine. Skrien, 238, pp.58-61.

1999 More Heat than Light? Skrien, 237, p. 49

1999 New Typography. Skrien, 236, p. 42.

1999 Pulling the Plug. Skrien, 235, p. 61.

1999 Post Internet. Skrien, 234, p. 61.

1999 Who wants a movie magazine? i, 233, p. 33.

1999 Het herbruik voorbij. Skrien, 232, p. 47.

1999 Tentoonstelling Tacita Dean. Skrien, 231, p. 58.

1999 Kieran Lyons over interactieve installaties. Skrien, 231, pp. 54-57.

1999 Breakfast at Willis’. i, 229, pp. 46-47.

1999 Pordenone (festival review). Skrien, 229, p. 16.

1998 Outlook for Media Arts, Art, Uncles and Chainsaws. Skrien, 228, pp. 68-71.

1998 Harpo in Cyberspace. Skrien, 227, p. 55.

1998 Godzilla verliest van voetbal. Skrien, 226, p. 49.

1998 That’s Entertainment. Skrien, 225, p. 57.

1998 Alien Entities. Skrien, 224, p. 54.

1998 Interactive Popcorn. Skrien, 223, p. 49.

1998 Digitaal soldaatje spelen. Skrien, 222, pp. 54-55.

1998 Alien verkoopt boeken op Internet. Skrien, 221, p. 56.

1997 Chicago and Vodka. Skrien, 219, p. 57.

1997 People in Black. Skrien, 218, p. 57.

1997 Shopping for the Millennium. Skrien, 217, pp. 74-75.

1997 Een onorthodox blauwtje. Skrien, 215, pp. 73-74.

1997 Pas op voor Marsmannetjes. Skrien, 214, p. 78.

1997 Bioscoopje spelen. Skrien, 213, pp. 76-77.

1997 Dichtgeslibde aderen. Skrien, 212, pp. 74-75.

1996 Kunst te koop. Skrien, 211, pp. 75-76.

1996 Storm op komst. Skrien, 210, pp. 74-75.

1996 Prikkelen Stroomstoten. Skrien, 209, pp. 74-75.

1996 One of us@one of us. Skrien, 208, pp. 76-77.

1996 Wachten tot de bliksem inslaat. Skrien, 207, pp. 79-80.

1996 Luchtspiegeling/fatamorgana/scintillati. Skrien, 206, pp.71-72.

Films Made:

2019 The Broken Planets: A Comet for Thomas. Digital Video. 1’29’’ loop. https://www.place-plateforme.com/place2/michael-punt---broken-planet.html

2006 with Martha Blassnigg. Zero G.  video, 22’30”. Viewing copy: collection of the artist.

2003 St. Clare and the Crookes’ Mill. Digital Video. 3 mins. Viewing copy: collection of the artist.

1995 CD Rom Vs. Baywatch. Video tape, 60mins. Viewing copy: collection of the artist.

1991 In Bed With Madonna. Video-installation, continuous. Viewing copy: collection of the artist.

1989 The Appearance of Countries. Computer animation, 2 mins. Viewing copy: collection of the artist.

1989 Cold Cut. Video tape, 5 mins. Viewing copy: Bugg Computer Graphics.

1989 One and One.16mm B/W,19 mins. Viewing copy: collection of the artist.

1987 Crossing the Styx. 16mm B/W, 8 mins. Viewing copy: collection of the artist.

1987 Petite Fetischistes.16mm B/W, 7 mins. Viewing copy: collection of the artist.

1986 World Pictures. 16mm B/W, 8 mins. Viewing copy: collection of the artist.

1986 Paper Boat.16mm Monochrome/tint, film installation, continuous.

1985 Catacombs.16mm B/W, 2 mins. Viewing copy: collection of the artist.

1985 The Bounded Text. 16mm B/W, 7 mins. Viewing copy: collection of the artist.

1985 Tide Glas.16mm B/W, 6 mins. Viewing copy: collection of the artist.

1984 Lie/Lie.16mm B/W and colour, 9 mins. Viewing copy: collection of the artist.

1984 The Boat.16mm B/W, 4 mins. Viewing copy: collection of the artist.

Exhibitions of Sculpture and Drawing:

One Person Exhibitions:

1984 ‘… between the waves’, an exhibition of five objects, nine drawings and a novel… Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Catalogue, Birmingham: Ikon Gallery.

1984 The Banana Man, (a novel in a unique edition). Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.

1980 Michael Punt: Recent Sculpture and Drawing. Oriel Gallery, Cardiff. Catalogue, Cardiff: Welsh Arts Council.

1980 Michael Punt: Recent Drawings. Hull College of Art Gallery, Hull. Catalogue, Hull: Humberside University.

1976 Michael Punt: Sculpture, Drawing and Painting. Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol. Catalogue, Bristol: Arnolfini.

1973 Relics of a World War. Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh. Catalogue, Edinburgh: Richard Demarco Gallery.

1970 Michael Punt. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Catalogue, Birmingham: Ikon Gallery.

Selected Group Exhibitions:

1995 Digital Express. Media Station/F.Stop Gallery, Bath.

1991 The Centre of the World. John Hansard Gallery, Southampton.

1991 56 Group Wales. A Touring Exhibition. British Council, Bratislava, Karlovy, Brno.

1989 56 Group Wales. An Exhibition Selected by David Briers. Glyn Vivian Gallery, Swansea.

1989 Cardiff/Camden. The Old Library, Cardiff.

1989 Camden/Cardiff. The Library Gallery, Swiss Cottage, London.

1988 Fragments of False Houses. Pomeroy Purdey Gallery, London.

1988 Death a Contemporary View. Kettles Yard, Cambridge.

1988 Monuments. St George’s Church, London.

1988 56 Group Wales. Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno.

1987 Systems of Support. Kettles Yard, Cambridge.

1987 Terra-ist Series. Worcester Museum, Worcester.

1987 56 Group Wales. Touring Exhibition. British Council, Bratislava, Kordice, Karlovy, Brno.

1987 56 Group Wales. Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Wales.

1986 Collaborations in Network Projects. Venice Biennale, Venice.

1986 Video Plus, West Hubard, Chicago.

1984 56 Group Wales. Oriel Gallery, Cardiff.

1983 La Plissure du Texte. Arnolfini, Bristol. A textual work of distributed authorship exhibited also at Electra83, Paris (Deleted participant).

1983 World Prints Series. Museum of Modern Art, Bologna.

1983 Open Selection. International Association of Artists, Morley Gallery, London.

1982 56 Group Wales. St Paul’s Gallery, Leeds.

1981 Contemporary Sculpture. Arts Council, touring exhibition, Wales and Scotland.

1981 56 Group Wales. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.

1980 56 Group Wales, Images on Paper. Contemporary Arts Society, touring exhibition, UK.

1979 Six Sculptors. Arts Council, touring exhibition, UK.

1979 56 Group Wales. Glyn Vivian Gallery, Swansea.

1979 56 Group Wales. Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Newport.

1979 56 Group Wales. Arts Council touring exhibition, Wales.

1979 56 Group Wales. University of Wales Gallery, Cardiff.

1978 56 Group Wales. Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.

1978 56 Group Wales. University of Wales Gallery, Cardiff.

1977 The Glass Case Show. Wolverhampton Gallery, Wolverhampton.

1977 56 Group Wales. Arts Council touring exhibition, Belfast, Dublin, Aberystwyth.

1976 56 Group Wales. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.

1975 56 Group Wales. Leeds University Gallery, Leeds.

1974 56 Group Wales. University of Wales Gallery, Cardiff.

1971 Arts Councils Selection. Arts Council Gallery, Belfast.

1970 Play Orbit. Institute of Contemporary Art, London.