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Introducing The "AImage"

story © Michael Betancourt | published April 18, 2023 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



theory: GLITCH & POSTDIGITAL

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."






 
XPRMNTL anti-festival 2023, London, UK

story © Michael Betancourt | published January 24, 2023 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



movies: SHOWS & SCREENINGS

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






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

story © Michael Betancourt | published December 15, 2022 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



movies: SHOWS & SCREENINGS





 
E-Book Versions for Online Classes

story © Michael Betancourt | published September 8, 2022 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



MICHAEL BETANCOURT NEWS

One of the problems with teaching during the pandemic is the accessibility of textbooks. Here are links to ebook versions of some of my books for anyone who needs them:

The History of Motion Graphics

A Short Guide to Writing About Motion Graphics

Force Magnifier: The Cultural Impacts of Artificial Intelligence

Glitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics

Semiotics and Title Sequences: Text-Image Composites in Motion Graphics

Title Sequences as Paratexts: Narrative Anticipation and Recapitulation

Synchronization and Title Sequences: Audio-Visual Semiosis in Motion Graphics

Typography and Motion Graphics: The 'Reading-Image'

Ideologies of the Real in Title Sequences, Motion Graphics and Cinema

Beyond Spatial Montage: Windowing, or the Cinematic Displacement of Time, Motion, and Space

The Critique of Digital Capitalism






 
The Instaglitch @ Glitch Art is Dead

story © Michael Betancourt | published September 2, 2022 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



MICHAEL BETANCOURT NEWS

On September 3, 4, and 5, 2022 Glitch Art is Dead will be showing both my installation/movie Instaglitches (2021) and selected images from the Instaglitch Project. There is a a portfolio of these static images available here.