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  • Cinematic Articulation in Motion Graphics
    Michael Betancourt
    This book develops a critical and theoretical approach to the semiotics of motion pictures as they are applied to a broader range of constructions than traditional commercial narrative productions. ...
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    77,39 €

  • Thomas Wilfred’s Clavilux
    Michael Betancourt
    This anthology brings together the few essays on Lumia that were published during Thomas Wilfred’s lifetime. Wilfred, an artist who experimented with a form of visual music he called 'Lumia' developed an entire aesthetic system that could either be performedlive, or set-up as an automatic display. His instrument, the Clavilux, was subject of several patents, collected along wit...
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    26,54 €

  • Structuring Time
    Michael Betancourt
    A NEW KINETIC ART: This book presents a new approach to the conceptual basis of all visual art, and while it is about making movies -- the catch-all for video, film, computer graphics and anything else that may appear to move -- the thrust of this book is a radical redefinition of all visual media, including traditional standards like painting. The framework these notes propose...
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    16,75 €

  • Re-Viewing Miami
    Michael Betancourt
    A book of theory and critical writing on art in Miami, Florida, including Charles Recher, Roxy Paine, Jens Diercks, Frederico Uribe, Normal Leibman, Salvador Dali, Guy Richards Smit, Diego Machado, and many more -- plus the city of Miami itself! ...
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    22,42 €

  • Two Women and a Nightengale
    Michael Betancourt
    A collage novel following in tradition started by surreal artist Max Ernst. It follows the story of two sisters and a mysterious creature called The Nightengale, chronicling their journeys. A fun and fabulous exploration of myth and metaphor. ...
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    22,55 €

  • Artemis
    Michael Betancourt
    Artemis A Tragedy of Collage is a fantasy of mythological proportions where the story we see is the fantasy of the title character whose journey causes her to lose sight of reality. Filled with fantastical beasts and evocative imagery, Michael Betancourt’s second collage novel is both epic in scale and powerful in impact. ...
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    16,83 €

  • Visual Music Instrument Patents
    Michael Betancourt
    Visual Music Instrument Patents Volume One is a collection of primary source documents for visual music instruments, often called 'color organs,' gleaned from the United States Patent Office. Information about these devices is often only available through the inventor’s patent applications, but these applications are not currently available except through the time-consuming pro...
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    31,25 €

  • Glitch Theory
    Michael Betancourt
    What do glitches reveal about the normally invisible processes behind our interpretations?            Glitches and Glitch Art illuminate the unseen assumptions, ideology of dialectical thinking, and role of established knowledge that shapes as well as determines our engagement with the world. Betancourt builds on the role of perception in guiding these interpretations to explor...
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    26,11 €

  • Art, AI and Culture
    Michael Betancourt
    Art, AI and Culture interrogates the aesthetic heritage of Modernism as it informs contemporary cultural applications of AI which demonstrate there is no escape from the kaleidoscopic lineage of colonialism where the status of 'human' and all the rights that entails were withheld from the colonized in general, and from slaves, labor, and women specifically. This analysis theori...
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    15,44 €

  • The Instaglitch Project
    Michael Betancourt
    This book presents a selection of 52 full color images from Michael Betancourt’s 'Instaglitch Project' that exploited the aberrant and unheimlich results of image handling and processing by the Instagram photosharing app-it derived novel examples of Glitch Art from the faults inherent to the iPhone system. This project uses these inconsistencies as a mechanism for aesthetic cr...
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    10,56 €

  • Portfolio
    Michael Betancourt
     This portfolio of works produced between 1990 and 2021 is the companion to the book Research Art by Michael Betancourt. It is a full color chronological documentation of movies, statics and social installations. This concise summary reveals a diverse practice addressing how media history, digital technology, and capitalist ideology inform studio practice. At once very specific...
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    21,93 €

  • The Book of Dissolution
    Michael Betancourt
    The Book of Dissolution is a work of visual poetry composed from forty-two carefully curated compositions produced between 1998 and 2020. Dissolution means the decomposition into fragments or parts, a disintegration that returns the established order to its component elements-but this breaking up does not mean an end to order, merely the conversion from one state to another, mo...
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    12,03 €

  • Force Magnifier
    Michael Betancourt
    “What exactly does AI automate?”Betancourt begins with the obvious answer, ‘human labor,’ and ends with the nature of value created in capitalism. His analysis was written for a lecture at the Aspen Institute–Germany’s Third Annual Berlin AI Conference, “Humanity Enabled: AI & the Great Economic Awakening” in March, 2020. The ‘great decoupling’ of labor from productivity and va...
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    22,38 €

  • Title Sequences as Paratexts
    Michael Betancourt
    In his third book on the semiotics of title sequences, Title Sequences as Paratexts, theorist Michael Betancourt offers an analysis of the relationship between the title sequence and its primary text-the narrative whose production the titles credit. Using a wealth of examples drawn from across film history-ranging from White Zombie ...
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    43,84 €

  • Synchronization and Title Sequences
    Michael Betancourt
    Synchronization and Title Sequences proposes a semiotic analysis of the synchronization of image and sound in motion pictures using title sequences. Through detailed historical close readings of title designs that use either voice-over, an instrumental opening, or title song to organize their visuals-from Vertigo (1958) to ...
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    43,93 €

  • Glitch Art in Theory and Practice
    Michael Betancourt
    Glitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics explores the concept of 'glitch' alongside contemporary digital political economy to develop a general theory of critical media using glitch as a case study and model, focusing specifically on examples of digital art and aesthetics. While prior li ...
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    43,95 €

  • Harmonia
    Michael Betancourt
    Harmonia, “harmonies,” analyzes the connections between glitch art, visual music, abstraction, and motion pictures. It is a theory and a critique of visual music.This collection is a chronological survey of artistic research into, around, and with digital motion pictures. The result unveils a theory of both visual music and abstraction, one that is directly connected to a criti...
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    27,87 €

  • Those Hidden Obstructions
    Michael Betancourt
    The first mystery is always if there is a mystery at all. A grieving widow, an antique dealer with weird friends, and a documentary photographer turned amateur detective each narrate their story where the truth doesn’t set you free. These three stories present fictional first-person accounts by movie maker and media theorist Michael Betancourt that take the familiar conventions...
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    15,45 €

  • A Short Guide to Writing About Motion Graphics
    Michael Betancourt
    'A Short Guide to Writing About Motion Graphics' is the one essential textbook for any student writing critically about non-narrative motion pictures. This book explains in accessible language what research is for and how to use it when writing critical examinations of motion pictures that do not tell stories. Explained using clear examples taken from published writing, this bo...
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    22,55 €

  • The History of Motion Graphics
    Michael Betancourt
    Expand your knowledge of the aesthetics, forms and meaning of motion graphics as well as the long-running connections between the American avant-garde film, video art and TV commercials. In 1960 avant-garde animator and inventor John Whitney started a company called 'Motion Graphics, Inc.' to make animated titles and logos. His new company crystalized a relationship between ava...
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    33,32 €

  • Structuring Time (Second Edition)
    Michael Betancourt
    A NEW KINETIC ART: This book presents a new approach to the conceptual basis of all visual art, and while it is about making movies -- the catch-all for video, film, computer graphics and anything else that may appear to move -- the thrust of this book is a radical redefinition of all visual media, including traditional standards like painting. The framework these notes propose...
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    23,19 €