Michael Betancourt
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Michael Betancourt is a critial theorist, museum curator, and multi-disciplinary artist. His essays have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic; journals such as Leonardo, Semiotica and CTheory have published his essays; he has edited five books on visual music technologies invented by artists such as Thomas Wilfred, Mary Hallock-Greenewalt, and Oskar Fischinger. In the course of this research, he discovered the oldest surviving hand-painted abstract films, done in 1916 by inventor and artist Mary Hallock-Greenewalt.
He has exhibited his movies, site-specific installations, and non-traditional art forms in unseen, unusual, or public spaces since 1992. He began producing guerilla interventions in public spaces in 1996 with The TrueLife Ad Campaign, a project that assumed the form of a newspaper ad. Since then, he has produced a series of interventions in public spaces designed to provoke an active engagement with the viewer. His movies have been shown in galleries, festivals and art fairs internationally, and are distributed in Europe by Lowave.

BOOK, Text extract: The Aura of the Digital
TEXTS: Same As It Ever Was - Acts of Digital Re-Authoring
Small projects: VJam Theory: Interactors, audiences and participators