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
1964. – 1968. Bath Academy of Art, Fine Art, Sculpture.
1968. BA (Hons) CNAA.
1968. – 1970. Toy Designer, Eldon Industries, Middlesex.
1969. – 1974. Lecturer in Fine Art, Ulster Polytechnic.
1974. – 2004. Reader, Newport School of Art and Design .
1989. – 1990. M.A. (Film Studies) E. Anglia.
1992.–1996. Assistente in Opleiding
Film en televisiewetenschap, University of Amsterdam.
1998 –. Editor–in-Chief, Leonardo Reviews.
2000. PhD, University of Amsterdam.
2000 –. Leonardo/ISAST Advisor Board, International Editor.
2004. – 2005. Reader and Director, MetaTechnology Research, University of Wales..
2005 – . Professor of Art and Technology, University of Plymouth.
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.
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.
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)
Brodskis, B Post-digital scribing: valuing the point of intersection (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]
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]
Xiaorong Wang. (2022-) Materialist Curation.
Welsman, L., (2019-) Sublime onto-aesthetics: quantum qualities of art across media [DoS]
Papers and Publications Since 2000:
Artworks and Chapters:
Artificial Intelligence and the Technological Imaginary, Leonardo (in press)
Dusting the catacombs, Place, 7 (Ed. Baetens, J.) January 2025
2024. The Stolen Tone Poem. Place 6. (Ed. Baetens, J.)
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 athttp://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
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.