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Here is a collection of interesting, upcoming exhibitions and shows of Michael Betancourt's movies and art.


 


17th Annual Digital Graffiti Festival - Alys Beach, FL on May 17-18, 2024

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movies: SHOWS & SCREENINGS

I have a movie showing in the 17th Annual Digital Graffiti Festival, May 17-18, 2024. This year looks even better with more events and talks with the artists, curators, and organizsers!


Aphasic combines my visual poetry with my work in Glitch Art by animating a series of 32 typoems using both colored lines and a field of digital glitches. It takes its title from a medical condition where the ability to recognize language and communicate has been disrupted: both asemic poetry and Glitch Art converge in these brightly colored typoems allow viewers to focus on the ways their presentation as a video transforms the typical expectations for legibility when confronting text on screen. My asemic poems explore an experience I had while driving behind a truck with a big logo painted on the backlarge, gothic capitalsthat simply refused to resolve into coherent lettering for me. There were letters there and I could recognize that the curves and uprights were text, but it refused to become coherent as lettering. Making typoetry is my attempt to explore that experience, to modulate the recognition of lettering without the need to always or consistently produce letters, words, or lexical statements. Transforming them into a movie accentuates this engagement with the ambiguity of perception, a factor that glitching magnifies.






 
showing at Digital Graffiti 2023 on Alys Beach, FL

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movies: SHOWS & SCREENINGS

My movie Making Gestures, Seeing Sounds is installed at site #41 in Digital Graffiti which opens Friday, May 19!







 
XPRMNTL anti-festival 2023, London, UK

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movies: SHOWS & SCREENINGS

My movie [Redshift] will be screening in London later this spring!






 
Synthetic Zero show - Bronx Art Space Opens Wednesday, December 21

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movies: SHOWS & SCREENINGS





 
The Sun - Light From Space

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movies: SHOWS & SCREENINGS

My movie Angular Momentum is in this show. You can stream the program live (or watch the recording) at twitch.tv/lightfromspace at 6pm CST (7PM EST) on Sunday June 20.