www.michaelbetancourt.com

Michael Betancourt, PhD (research artist, critical theorist)

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 internationally at the Black Maria Film Festival, Contemporary Art Ruhr, Festival des Cinemas Differents de Paris, Director's Lounge (Berlin), Millennium Film Workshop, and Experiments in Cinema among others. His writing has been translated into Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, and Spanish, and published in a variety of magazines, including The Atlantic, Make Magazine, Millennium Film Journal, Leonardo, Semiotica, and CTheory. He wrote The _______…