Michael 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 and statics have shown internationally at film festivals and art fairs, including the Black Maria Film Festival, Art Basel Miami Beach, Contemporary Art Ruhr, Athens Video Art Festival, Festival des Cinemas Differents de Paris, Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, the San Francisco Cinematheque’s Crossroads, and Experiments in Cinema, among others.
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