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   research: MOTION GRAPHICS
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   theory: DIGITAL CAPITALISM
   theory: GLITCH & POSTDIGITAL
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the Ad-vent of Media Recycling

story © Michael Betancourt | published June 2, 2004 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



theory: CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS

CNN is carying this story on how ads are starting to be recycled in different markets than where they were originally made.




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Futures Now Past

story © Michael Betancourt | published May 29, 2004 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



random art notes

This exhibit presents a strikingly antiquated Modern vision of the Future (now the present) from the 1940s. Radebaugh designed many of the images we now recognize as emblematic of what our present was imagined to be like in the days when imagining the Future wasn't a bleak prospect.






 
VOOM HDTV Sponsoring Experimental Channel

story © Michael Betancourt | published May 28, 2004 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



theory: CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS

MOOV is a revolutionary new High-Definition (HD) television channel dedicated solely to showcasing non-narrative film and video art.




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Folk Processes and the Internet

story © Michael Betancourt | published May 16, 2004 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



theory: CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS

A new electronic-based culture is emerging in the on-line communities centered around P2P networks, open source, and through personal web sites and blogs. It has been gradually developing ever since the world wide web was launched in the early 1990s, even though it began in the period before then. To call the loose collection of tendencies centering around the non-commercial spread of software, services, and media (music/art/video/writing) a culture may be premature, however, understanding what it could represent for a broader context beyond the confines of the Internet requires this designation.



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Unseen Potentials

story © Michael Betancourt | published May 15, 2004 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



movies: AESTHETICS
"Within many of mankinds tools are latent properties unobserved even by those those intuition has led to the design of the tool. Television is no exception. As an electronic system its range and complexity is astonishing; unfortunately, far more so than its usual content indicates."


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