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Michael Punt Professor Michael Punt - ()
Role Qualifications & background
Michael Punt BA, MA, PhD, ILT Professor of Artand Technology, University of Plymouth Editor-in-Chief, Leonardo Reviews Director, Transtechnology Research Michael Punt is a Professor of Art andTechnology at the University of Plymouth. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Leonardo Reviews which publishes inexcess of 200 reviews a year on art, science and technology. Between 1969 and1994 he had over one hundred exhibitions of his work including one-personshows, and has made 15 films. He gained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam(Early Cinema and the TechnologicalImaginary, 2000 http://dare.uva.nl/document/100064) and has jointlyproduced two books. He has published over 80 articles on cinema history anddigital technology in key journals includingThe Velvet Light Trap, Leonardo, Design Issues, TechnoeticArts and Convergence. Between1996 and 2000 he was a regular contributor to Skrien, the Dutch journal of record for film and televisioncriticism. During that period he wrote a monthly column on cinema, art and theInternet. In the past five years he has given papers and keynotes in more than a dozen countries and is currently working on a two volume book project ontechnology and imagination during the ‘long twentieth century’. He currently leads a large joint research project with the VU, University Amsterdam, the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, the Netherlands Filmmuseum and The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. This project, funded through HERA, 'Technology, Exchange and Flow: Artistic Practices and Commercial Application' focuses on experimental film and advertising in Europe. A full cv is at: www.trans-techresearch.net
Roles on external bodies 2010. Metadesign Network, Kyung Hee University S. Korea 2009. TIF Forum, Yonsei University, Seoul. 2009. Technology-Imagination-Future: Journal for Transdisciplinary Knowledge Design. 2008. Academy Science and Arts of Finland. Reviewer. 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. AHRC Postgraduates Awards Panel 2005. AHRC Peer Review College 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 Board, Leonardo/ISAST International Advisory Board. 1999. Academic referee, Convergence, Artificial Life and Society. 1998 Academic referee, Leonardo 1998 Editor in Chief, Leonardo Reviews. periodic: 2011. AHRC Standard Research Grants Panel 2010 Research Steering Committee. Humanities as a Source of Creativity (HERA) 2010. Steering Committee. ISEA 2011 2010. European Science Foundation, Reviewer Pool2008. Scientific Committee. Less Remote. International Congress of Astronauts. 2007. Advisory Board, Less Remote (International Astronauts Congress). 2007. Scientific Advisor, Mutamorphosis, Prague. 2006. Scientific Advisor CMSC 2005. Scientific Committee SIGGRAPH 2004. Scientific Committee, Art and Cognition, (University of Technology Sydney). 2004. Scientific Committee, Consciousness Reframed, (Planetary Collegium). 2003. Editorial Board. iDat Data Browser, (University of Plymouth,). 2002. Advisor to Len Massey, Director, Resonances. Prod. BBC. (Prog. 02/PTGL117F 2001). 2001. Competition juror, "Image/video" competition, Transmediale 2, Podeville, Berlin. 2001. Invited press corespondent, Ars Electronica 2001, Linz. 2001. Editorial advising: Pentagram Design UK. 1999 – 2004. Director: B10c Charitable Trust (for education in art and technology). 1996 – 2001. Columnist, Skrien.
Teaching interests Technology and Culture - art and technology - scienceand 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 interests Technology and Culture
- art and technology
- scienceand 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 cinema film form
- cinema history and theory
Current projects:
The Technological Imaginary:Science, Technology and the Popular Imagination
UoP Research group membership AZTEC (Art, Science, Technology Research Consortium)Centre for Media, Art & Design Research (MADr) i-DAT (Institute of Digital Art & Technology) Planetary Collegium Trans-technology Other research
early television early cinema telepathy and parapsychology in cinema Grants & contracts 2010. CAPES PhD Scholarship (x2) 2010. Leverhulme trust Visiting Fellow Grant ( Prof. Jahrmann) 2010. HERA -ESF EU Grant (three year, 1m Euro). 2009. UoP Postgraduate Scholarship 2009. AHRC Postgraduate Scholarship 2008. Postgraduate Scholarship: Portuguese Government 2007. AHRC Methods Network Knowledge Transfer in Immersive Environments, research grant. 2007. EPSRC Peer Review College 2006. 2010. AHRC Post Graduate Panel, Visual Art and Media 2006. Port Eliot, and AFoundation, research grant. 2006. AHRC Postgraduate Scholarship. 2005. EPSRC Postgraduate Scholarship 2005. Wellcome Trust/ Theatre Royal Plymouth, research grant. 1992. 1996. Assistente in Opleiding Film en televisiewetenschap, University of Amsterdam. |
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