showing at Digital Graffiti 2023 on Alys Beach, FL

story © Michael Betancourt | published May 18, 2023 | permalink |  |  

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

story © Michael Betancourt | published April 27, 2023 | permalink |  |  

Glitch Art has claimed an extensive history of precedents and sources throughout both art history and media art. The contemporary use of digital glitches as a source of aesthetic and expressive imagery emerges from the lineage of avant-garde exploits of media and technology in the early twentieth century, and before that, the concerns of the Arts and Crafts movement with demonstrations of the 'human hand' in art making during the nineteenth century.

This small (and incomplete) selection highlights artists working at the end of the twentieth century who were employing glitches self-consciously in their work, but were active before, or apart from, the later social media groups on Flickr and Facebook that consolidated and brought the idea of glitches-as-art into general public consciousness. It should not be considered an exhausive, final or even complete presentation of the early artists pioneering glitches and Glitch Art, but is instead offered as a sampling of the kinds and range of works being done.

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story © Michael Betancourt | published April 18, 2023 | permalink |  |  

In order to distinguish the generative visual products of AI systems from other types of imagery such as photographs, I have decided to create a neologism, the "AImage," to identify these works and distinguish them from other types of images. This rhetorical gesture distinguishes these statistical products from other machine made images such as CGI or photography, while providing a readily apparent label that has the same immediacy as "photo."

story © Michael Betancourt | published January 24, 2023 | permalink |  |  

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

story © Michael Betancourt | published December 15, 2022 | permalink |  |