Professor dr. Michael Punt
University of Plymouth,
Portland Square,
Drake Circus,
Plymouth,
Devon
PL4 8AA
UK

mpunt@plymouth.ac.uk

Transtechnology Research is a transdisciplinary research group situated in the Faculty of Arts. Its constituency is drawn from historians, philosophers, anthropologists, artists and designers and is led from a historical and theoretical perspective with the objective of understanding science and technology as a manifestation of a range of human desires and cultural imperatives. Its key focus is to understand how a technology acquires meaning and how it is used after it enters into the public domain.

Using a range of practice and theory based methods the group is interested in making apparent evidence of human desire and cultural imperatives as they are manifested in the way that science and technology is practiced, innovated by entrepreneurs and interpreted by its users. Topics currently being researched concern the historical and philosophical aspects of nineteenth century media and contemporary digital technology, early cinema and the technological imaginary, cognitive aspects of industrial design, affective interaction, and instrumentation.

Transtechnology Research is a constituent member of AZTEC, a university wide consortium of researchers concerned with the interface between the arts,sciences and technology. It is also the UK editorial office of Leonardo and the International Office of Leonardo Reviews. (www.leonardo.info)