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About Michael Betancourt
 
Web site: https://www.michaelbetancourt.com
Bio: Michael Betancourt is an artist, theorist and historian.

His essays have been translated into Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, and Spanish, and published in many magazines, including The Atlantic, Make Magazine, Millennium Film Journal, Leonardo, Semiotica, and CTheory. He wrote The ____________ Manifesto, and the books The Critique of Digital Capitalism, Glitch Art in Theory and Practice, and Beyond Spatial Montage: Windowing. In the course of this research, he discovered the oldest surviving hand-painted abstract films, done in 1916 by inventor and artist Mary Hallock-Greenewalt.

As an artist, his movies have screened internationally at the Black Maria Film Festival, Art Basel Miami Beach, Contemporary Art Ruhr, Athens Video Art Festival, Syros International Film Festival, Festival des Cinemas Differents de Paris, Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, the San Francisco Cinematheques Crossroads, and Experiments in Cinema among others. His writing complements his movie making.

 


 
Recent articles by Michael Betancourt
 

GLITH ::: VERLUSTKONTROLLE [Control of Loss]

showing at Digital Graffiti 2023 on Alys Beach, FL

FYI: a Partial Pre-History of Glitch Art

Introducing The "AImage"

XPRMNTL anti-festival 2023, London, UK

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

E-Book Versions for Online Classes

The Instaglitch @ Glitch Art is Dead

New Typoems in Utsanga.it

Digital Graffiti 2022 - Best of Show - Alys Beach, FL

Typoetry folio/book from nOIR:Z

observations on my process

Glitch Movies by Michael Betancourt on Blu-Ray

Metaphors for Vision

The Instaglitch Project

Research Art - now available

new Listserv for Video Art!

The Aesthetic Problem Posed by Digital Capitalism

A Note on 'Typoetry' - on Utsanga.it

The Sun - Light From Space