Michael Punt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1009907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Punt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Punt |
| SIGNATURE | PUNT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Plymouth, U.K. E-mail: <>. |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0457-7179 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Seeing Anxiety: Ecological Video Ethnography and Simulation to Understand Anxiety and Decision‐Making in Dental Care
BACKGROUND: Dental anxiety is a widespread barrier to care, often contributing to appointment avoidance, treatment disruption, and emotional strain for both patients and clinicians. While extensively studied as a psychological trait, less attention has been paid to how anxiety manifests situationally and relationally, through non-verbal, affective, and spatial cues within clinical encounters. Moreover, in certain contexts, such affective signals …
Artificial Intelligence and The Technological Imaginary
This paper situates the current iteration of artificial intelligence in a historical context to introduce the Technological Imaginary as a recent concept that can throw light upon why the technologies that we use have the form that they do. The Technological Imaginary is explored here in relation to the post-war development of AI in a summary of Accidental Machines to highlight the imaginary aspect of computer-based technological solutions to the…
Operational Images: From the Visual to the Invisual
Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects
Like Leonardo, the journal Technology and Culture was founded to fill an important gap in the way that science and technology were discussed from both an internalist and externalist perspective. Slightly earlier out of the blocks in 1959, Technology and Culture (T&C) announced its mission “to promote the scholarly study of the history of technology, to show the relations between technology and other elements of culture, and to make these elements…
Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities Around 1900
The clarity of purpose, detailed research, and refusal to jump to glib conclusions is evidence of a project that has been lived with and, I am sure, was difficult to let go of. Not surprising then that its final sentence is a dedication to “ our two children, whose laughter is among the most beautiful sounds I can think of.” The introduction opens 217 pages earlier in 1886, with George Ballet walking home from the theater remarking, “Now we hear …
Words of Weather: A Glossary
Fifty years ago, climate was a topic more generally discussed in schools under the rubric of physical geography. Along with data about the major agricultural and mineral assets, the prevailing winds, rainfall, and temperatures were also referred to as distinguishing qualities of a regional entity demarked in other ways in a class called political geography. Weather, on the other hand, was a topic of casual conversation that was thought to be suff…
Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics Around 1900
During the nineteenth century a number of inventions were developed that used the opportunities afforded when the flow of a motion was momentarily stopped. These included the rotary sewing machine, the Gatling gun, the typewriter, and chronophotographic devices. Various iterations of this principle were also used to capture photographic images in ways that lent themselves to resynthesis, including projection. There were a great many variations on…
Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon
Seeing: How Light Tells Us About the World
Science, Culture and Epigenetics
April 01 2017 Science, Culture and Epigenetics Michael Punt Michael Punt Leonardo Reviews Editor-in-ChiefEmail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael Punt Leonardo Reviews Editor-in-ChiefEmail: [email protected] Online Issn: 1530-9282 Print Issn: 0024-094X ©2017 ISAST2017 Leonardo (2017) 50 (2): 118. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_e_01385 Cite Icon Cite Permis…
Abstract of “Cognitive Innovation: A View from the Bridge”
The paper abstracted here is about creativity. It proceeds from an understanding of the promise of the concept of cognitive innovation as a focus for collaboration between the sciences, arts and humanities. The value of the concept in this context lies in its approach to creativity as a boot-strapping cognitive process in which the energies that shape the poem are necessarily indistinguishable from those that shape the poet
Cognitive Innovation and the Cognitive Turn
For nearly half a century Leonardo has surveyed, reflected and shaped the intellectual\nproject of ISAST. As part of this mission it has, in the best possible sense, been alert to\n‘the next big thing’; what in the sciences is called a ‘breakthrough’, a ‘movement’ in the\narts, and in technology an ‘opportunity’. In recent years in the humanities the ‘next big\nthing’ has been relentlessly labelled as a ‘turn’ to the extent that the term itself n…
In Memoriam: Martha Blassnigg, 08 September 1969–27 September 2015
February 01 2016 In Memoriam: Martha Blassnigg, 08 September 1969–27 September 2015 Michael Punt Michael Punt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael Punt Online Issn: 1530-9282 Print Issn: 0024-094X ©2016 ISAST2016 Leonardo (2016) 49 (1): 87–88. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_r_01167 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Articl…
Resisting Abstraction: Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism
October 01 2015 Resisting Abstraction: Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism Resisting Abstraction: Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism by GordonHughes. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, U.S.A., 2014. 184 pp. illus. Trade. ISBN: 97802261559232. Michael Punt Michael Punt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael Punt Online Issn: 1530-9282 Print I…
From Soul to Mind: A History of an Idea
April 01 2015 From Soul to Mind: A History of an Idea Michael Punt Michael Punt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael Punt Online ISSN: 1530-9282 Print ISSN: 0024-094X ©2015 ISAST2015 Leonardo (2015) 48 (2): 108. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_e_00967 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Vide…
From Méliès to Galaxy Quest: The Dark Matter of the Popular Imagination
The authors argue that an interrogation of cinema can reveal the fragility of our knowledge and the underlying imperatives that the social construction of space responds to. A revisionist overview of the issue of professional interfaces in the popular arts is followed by a discussion of the influence of space technology and natural space phenomena on human personal and collective belief systems in order to open the way for an outline of the conce…
Leonardo Reviews
June 01 2005 America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives as New Beginnings America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives as New Beginnings by David E.Nye. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2003. 381 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-262-14081-0. Michael Punt Michael Punt University of Plymouth, U.K. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael Pun…
Leonardo Reviews
August 01 2005 Consciousness and Teleportation: The 6th Swiss Biennial on Science, Technics + Aesthetics/Bewusstsein und Teleportation: 6. Schweizer Biennale Zu Wissenschaft, Technik + Ästhetik Consciousness and Teleportation: The 6th Swiss Biennial on Science, Technics + Aesthetics/Bewusstsein und Teleportation: 6. Schweizer Biennale Zu Wissenschaft, Technik + Ästhetik Swiss Museum of Transport and Communication/Verkehrshaus der Schweiz, Lucerne…
Leonardo Reviews
June 01 2005 Festival Il Cinema Ritrovato 2004 Festival Il Cinema Ritrovato 2004 Cineteca del Comune di Bologna and the Mostra Internazionale del Cinema Libero. Bologna, Italy, 3–10July 2004. Michael Punt Michael Punt University of Plymouth, U.K. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael Punt University of Plymouth, U.K. E-mail: [email protected]. Onlin…
Renaming the Future
February 01 2004 Renaming the Future Michael Punt Michael Punt Leonardo [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael Punt Editor-in-Chief Leonardo [email protected] Online ISSN: 1530-9282 Print ISSN: 0024-094X © 2004 ISAST2004 Leonardo (2004) 37 (1): 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1162/002409404772827950 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…
Orai and the Transdisciplinary Wunderkammer
The inevitable realization in scientific circles that the reality of the imagined has an equivalent epistemological significance to the material raises fascinating questions, as it invites a skeptical reconsideration of the essential basis of knowledge. While this dramatic shift provides a moment of profound satisfaction for those artists, designers and scientists who have long argued for a transdisciplinary worldview, it also provides a moment o…
Rethinking Leonardo
February 01 2003 Rethinking Leonardo Roger F. Malina, Roger F. Malina Leonardo/ISAST Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Mark Resch, Mark Resch Leonardo/ISAST Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Annick Bureaud, Annick Bureaud Leonardo/OLATS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Nic Collins, Nic Collins Leonardo Music Journal Search for other works by this a…
A Taxi Ride to Late Capitalism: Hypercapitalism, Imagination and Artificial Intelligence
Human Consciousness and the Postdigital Analogue
Leonardo - Volume 35, Number 2, April 2002
Ars Electronica 2001 by Linz, Austria, 1–6 September, 2001. WWW
April 01 2002 Ars Electronica 2001 Ars Electronica 2001 by Linz, Austria, 1–6 September, 2001. WWW: www.aec.at/takeover. Michael Punt Michael Punt 26 Bridge Street, Chepstow, Monmouthshire NP16 SEZ, U.K. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael Punt 26 Bridge Street, Chepstow, Monmouthshire NP16 SEZ, U.K. E-mail: [email protected]. Online ISSN: 1530-92…
Digital Media, Artificial Life, and Postclassical Cinema: Condition, Symptom, or a Rhetoric of Funding
Technological determinism would argue that the popular cinema is driven by new technologies (especially digital media) in a very straightforward way. Digital imaging, for example, has produced special effects and animations that were unimaginable before computer technology, and audiences are attracted to intellectually empty blockbuster films to experience the thrilling spectacle of new technology. Moreover, the organization of the industry from …
Cd-Rom: Radical Nostalgia?: Cinema History, Cinema Theory, and New Technology
THE AUTHOR TAKES THE POSITION THAT SOME OF THE CURRENT DEBATES in film theory and film history may point towards a new strategy for developing CD-ROMs as a medium in their own right and retrieving them from the combination of despondence and hype that some commentators see as dominating the industry. Siegfried Kracauer’s ideas about mass ornament and recent scholarship in film history underlie an examination of the nature of CD-ROMs, leading the …
Digital Media, Artificial Life, and Postclassical Cinema: Condition, Symptom, or a Rhetoric of Funding
Technological determinism would argue that the popular cinema is driven by new technologies (especially digital media) in a very straightforward way. Digital imaging, for example, has produced special effects and animations that were unimaginable before computer technology, and audiences are attracted to intellectually empty blockbuster films to experience the thrilling spectacle of new technology. Moreover, the organization of the industry from …
A Taxi Ride to Late Capitalism: Hypercapitalism, Imagination and Artificial Intelligence
Human Consciousness and the Postdigital Analogue
Leonardo - Volume 35, Number 2, April 2002
Ars Electronica 2001 by Linz, Austria, 1–6 September, 2001. WWW
April 01 2002 Ars Electronica 2001 Ars Electronica 2001 by Linz, Austria, 1–6 September, 2001. WWW: www.aec.at/takeover. Michael Punt Michael Punt 26 Bridge Street, Chepstow, Monmouthshire NP16 SEZ, U.K. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael Punt 26 Bridge Street, Chepstow, Monmouthshire NP16 SEZ, U.K. E-mail: [email protected]. Online ISSN: 1530-92…
Rethinking Leonardo
February 01 2003 Rethinking Leonardo Roger F. Malina, Roger F. Malina Leonardo/ISAST Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Mark Resch, Mark Resch Leonardo/ISAST Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Annick Bureaud, Annick Bureaud Leonardo/OLATS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Nic Collins, Nic Collins Leonardo Music Journal Search for other works by this a…
Renaming the Future
February 01 2004 Renaming the Future Michael Punt Michael Punt Leonardo [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael Punt Editor-in-Chief Leonardo [email protected] Online ISSN: 1530-9282 Print ISSN: 0024-094X © 2004 ISAST2004 Leonardo (2004) 37 (1): 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1162/002409404772827950 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…
Orai and the Transdisciplinary Wunderkammer
The inevitable realization in scientific circles that the reality of the imagined has an equivalent epistemological significance to the material raises fascinating questions, as it invites a skeptical reconsideration of the essential basis of knowledge. While this dramatic shift provides a moment of profound satisfaction for those artists, designers and scientists who have long argued for a transdisciplinary worldview, it also provides a moment o…
Leonardo Reviews
June 01 2005 America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives as New Beginnings America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives as New Beginnings by David E.Nye. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 2003. 381 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 0-262-14081-0. Michael Punt Michael Punt University of Plymouth, U.K. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael Pun…
Leonardo Reviews
August 01 2005 Consciousness and Teleportation: The 6th Swiss Biennial on Science, Technics + Aesthetics/Bewusstsein und Teleportation: 6. Schweizer Biennale Zu Wissenschaft, Technik + Ästhetik Consciousness and Teleportation: The 6th Swiss Biennial on Science, Technics + Aesthetics/Bewusstsein und Teleportation: 6. Schweizer Biennale Zu Wissenschaft, Technik + Ästhetik Swiss Museum of Transport and Communication/Verkehrshaus der Schweiz, Lucerne…
Leonardo Reviews
June 01 2005 Festival Il Cinema Ritrovato 2004 Festival Il Cinema Ritrovato 2004 Cineteca del Comune di Bologna and the Mostra Internazionale del Cinema Libero. Bologna, Italy, 3–10July 2004. Michael Punt Michael Punt University of Plymouth, U.K. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael Punt University of Plymouth, U.K. E-mail: [email protected]. Onlin…
From Méliès to Galaxy Quest: The Dark Matter of the Popular Imagination
The authors argue that an interrogation of cinema can reveal the fragility of our knowledge and the underlying imperatives that the social construction of space responds to. A revisionist overview of the issue of professional interfaces in the popular arts is followed by a discussion of the influence of space technology and natural space phenomena on human personal and collective belief systems in order to open the way for an outline of the conce…
Resisting Abstraction: Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism
October 01 2015 Resisting Abstraction: Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism Resisting Abstraction: Robert Delaunay and Vision in the Face of Modernism by GordonHughes. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, U.S.A., 2014. 184 pp. illus. Trade. ISBN: 97802261559232. Michael Punt Michael Punt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael Punt Online Issn: 1530-9282 Print I…
From Soul to Mind: A History of an Idea
April 01 2015 From Soul to Mind: A History of an Idea Michael Punt Michael Punt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael Punt Online ISSN: 1530-9282 Print ISSN: 0024-094X ©2015 ISAST2015 Leonardo (2015) 48 (2): 108. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_e_00967 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Vide…
In Memoriam: Martha Blassnigg, 08 September 1969–27 September 2015
February 01 2016 In Memoriam: Martha Blassnigg, 08 September 1969–27 September 2015 Michael Punt Michael Punt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael Punt Online Issn: 1530-9282 Print Issn: 0024-094X ©2016 ISAST2016 Leonardo (2016) 49 (1): 87–88. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_r_01167 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Articl…
Science, Culture and Epigenetics
April 01 2017 Science, Culture and Epigenetics Michael Punt Michael Punt Leonardo Reviews Editor-in-ChiefEmail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael Punt Leonardo Reviews Editor-in-ChiefEmail: [email protected] Online Issn: 1530-9282 Print Issn: 0024-094X ©2017 ISAST2017 Leonardo (2017) 50 (2): 118. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_e_01385 Cite Icon Cite Permis…
Abstract of “Cognitive Innovation: A View from the Bridge”
The paper abstracted here is about creativity. It proceeds from an understanding of the promise of the concept of cognitive innovation as a focus for collaboration between the sciences, arts and humanities. The value of the concept in this context lies in its approach to creativity as a boot-strapping cognitive process in which the energies that shape the poem are necessarily indistinguishable from those that shape the poet
Cognitive Innovation and the Cognitive Turn
For nearly half a century Leonardo has surveyed, reflected and shaped the intellectual\nproject of ISAST. As part of this mission it has, in the best possible sense, been alert to\n‘the next big thing’; what in the sciences is called a ‘breakthrough’, a ‘movement’ in the\narts, and in technology an ‘opportunity’. In recent years in the humanities the ‘next big\nthing’ has been relentlessly labelled as a ‘turn’ to the extent that the term itself n…
Seeing: How Light Tells Us About the World
Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon
Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects
Like Leonardo, the journal Technology and Culture was founded to fill an important gap in the way that science and technology were discussed from both an internalist and externalist perspective. Slightly earlier out of the blocks in 1959, Technology and Culture (T&C) announced its mission “to promote the scholarly study of the history of technology, to show the relations between technology and other elements of culture, and to make these elements…
Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities Around 1900
The clarity of purpose, detailed research, and refusal to jump to glib conclusions is evidence of a project that has been lived with and, I am sure, was difficult to let go of. Not surprising then that its final sentence is a dedication to “ our two children, whose laughter is among the most beautiful sounds I can think of.” The introduction opens 217 pages earlier in 1886, with George Ballet walking home from the theater remarking, “Now we hear …
Words of Weather: A Glossary
Fifty years ago, climate was a topic more generally discussed in schools under the rubric of physical geography. Along with data about the major agricultural and mineral assets, the prevailing winds, rainfall, and temperatures were also referred to as distinguishing qualities of a regional entity demarked in other ways in a class called political geography. Weather, on the other hand, was a topic of casual conversation that was thought to be suff…
Endless Intervals: Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics Around 1900
During the nineteenth century a number of inventions were developed that used the opportunities afforded when the flow of a motion was momentarily stopped. These included the rotary sewing machine, the Gatling gun, the typewriter, and chronophotographic devices. Various iterations of this principle were also used to capture photographic images in ways that lent themselves to resynthesis, including projection. There were a great many variations on…
Artificial Intelligence and The Technological Imaginary
This paper situates the current iteration of artificial intelligence in a historical context to introduce the Technological Imaginary as a recent concept that can throw light upon why the technologies that we use have the form that they do. The Technological Imaginary is explored here in relation to the post-war development of AI in a summary of Accidental Machines to highlight the imaginary aspect of computer-based technological solutions to the…
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