Michael Punt is Professor Art and Technology and director of Transtechnology Research at the University of Plymouth and is also a member of the MIT/Leonardo Book Series Committee. He has made 17 films and published over eighty articles on cinema and digital media in the last decade. He gained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam (Early Cinema and the Technological Imaginary, 2000) and has published articles on cinema history and digital technology in The Velvet Light Trap, Leonardo, Design Issues, Artificial Intelligence and Society Technoetic Arts and Convergence. His most recent book: Screening Consciousness: Cinema Mind World, Rodopi, 2006 edited with Robert Pepperell follows their earlier collaboration: The Post-Digital Membrane: imagination technology and desire, Intellect Books, 2000/3. Full cv and details of research and publications can be found at http://www.trans- techresearch.net

http://leonardoreviews.mit.edu