Description: The official site for Dr. Michael Betancourt: critical theory, movies, gltich, and art. Betancourt is a critical theorist and research artist who works with movies and static imagery. A pioneer of glitch, he has worked with databending images and video since the 1990s. He produced his first visually seductive glitch works by bringing the visionary tradition into the present: by emphasizing their digital origins, his aesthetics allows the viewer to find poetic meaning in everyday life. His movies screened in
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Career narrative
Artist Resume [download pdf]
Academic Vita [download pdf]
Going Somewhere by Michael Betancourt
Cinegraphic: avant-garde movies, motion graphics, and theory by Michael Betancourt
ALO - Art of Light Organization - Home
The New Post-literate: A Gallery Of Asemic Writing
| Light Art Manifesto
AESTHETIC HAZARD PROJECT, a public art installation
I'm Press'd
Michael Betancourt, PhD (research artist, critical theorist)