Plexus Projects is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Michael Betancourt. Angular Momentum will be featured in Vitrine, an ongoing screening series of moving image artworks.
*Please note projections are viewed from the sidewalk. The project space is not open during Vitrine screen hours.
Angular Momentum
Cyanotype video. Centrifugal force pushing against the figure-ground distinction. An agglomeration of abstract light-shadow play, set in motion to evoke the transcendental, sublime experience created through a fusion of traditional, analogue in-camera photographic techniques with digital animation and compositing. This movie was created primarily with in-camera techniques, supplemented with minimal digital compositing to join the various shots together. Drawing on the visionary tradition of Lumia, it transposes traditional optical approaches to digital imaging.
“…memory itself may be hazy, incomplete, and tinged with a sense of the uncanny…”— Michael Betancourt
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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