Michael Betancourt

Selected books

• Glitch Theory: Art and Semiotics (Savannah: I'm Press'd, 2023)
• Art, AI and Culture: on the social identity threat posed by technological change (Savannah: I'm Press'd, 2022) Korean translation: 예술, 인공지능과 문화 by 최병길 [Choi Byungkil] (Seoul: 신아출판사 [Shina Publishing Co.], 2024)
• Cinematic Articulation in Motion Graphics [Routledge Studies in Media Theory and Practice] (Routledge, 2021)
• Force Magnifier: the cultural impacts of artificial intelligence (Wildside Press, 2020)
• Ideologies of the Real in Title Sequences, Motion Graphics and Cinema [Routledge Studies in Media Theory and Practice] (Routledge, 2019)
• Glitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics (Routledge, 2016)
• The Critique of Digital Capitalism: An Analysis of the Political Economy of Digital Culture and Technology (Punctum Books, 2016); German translation Kritik des digitalen Kapitalismus by Manfred Weltecke (WBG Verlag, 2018); Chinese translation 数字的灵韵：数字资本主义批判 (Aura of the Digital: The Critique of Digital Capitalism) by Prof. Chen Yishui (BNU Publishing Group, Beijing Normal University Press [BNUP], forthcoming 2026)
• The History of Motion Graphics: from Avant-Garde to Industry in the United States (Wildside Press, 2013); supported by a Savannah College of Art & Design Presidential Fellowship for Summer, 2011; Japanese translation モーション・グラフィックスの歴史：アヴァンギャルドからアメリカ by Shinsuke Ina, Katsuhito Mizuno, and Naoki Nishiguchi (Sangensha, 2019)
• Routledge Studies in Media Theory and Practice series books: Semiotics and Title Sequences (2017); Synchronization and Title Sequences (2017); Title Sequences as Paratexts (2018).

Selected articles

• "Computer Creates a Cat: Sign Formation, Glitching, and the AImage" Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (2024) pp. 1–28 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2023-0108
• "The 'Intentional Function' in Still and Moving Photographic Images" Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, vol. 253 (2023) pp. 71–80 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2020-0065
• "Asemic Reading, Visual Writing: an introduction to 'asemic poetry' as metalanguage" Psiax Pintor: Estudos e Reflexões sobre Desenho e Imagem, no. 6 ("Writing on, for, and with Drawing"), published by i2ADS, (Faculties of Architecture and Fine Arts of the University of Porto and the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Minho), Porto, Portugal (December 2022) pp. 33–38 DOI: https://doi.org/10.34626/psiax_2022_vol1
• "Glitch Art and the Cinematic Articulation of the 'Shot': The Convergence of Datamoshing with the Long Take" Journal of Visual Arts Practice, vol. 21, no 1 (2022) pp. 41–71 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2021.2020592
• "A Note on AI and the Ideology of Creativity" Academia Letters, Article 328 (March, 2021) DOI: https://doi.org/10.20935/AL328
• "Experimental Cinema: Found Footage" TECHNÈS project (International Research Partnership on Film Techniques and Technologies, 2015–2022), co-directed by André Gaudreault, Gilles Moüellic, and Laurent Le Forestier, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2018) DOI: http://technes.org/en/Project
• "The Semiotics of the Moon as Fantasy and Destination" Leonardo, vol. 48, no. 5 (2015) pp. 408–418; 435 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_00919
• "Critical Glitches and Glitch Art" Hz, No. 19, July, 2014.

Exhibition highlights

• 6th Di Carta Papermade Biennial, Museo Civico Palazzo Fogazzaro, Schio, Italy, 2027
• FILE Festival 2026, Fiesp Cultural Center, São Paulo, Brazil, 2026
• "Glitch: Ontological Exhaustions and System Failures," Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta, 2025
• "The Patterned Screen," M+ Cinema, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong, China, 2023
• 8th /'Fu:Bar/ Glitch Art Exhibition, Institut Français en Croatie, Zagreb, Croatia, 2022
• Glitch Art is Dead: the 3rd Expo, Granite Falls, MN, 2022
• Digital Graffiti Festival, "Best of Show" award, Alys Beach, FL, 2022
• Mitte Media Festival, Director's Lounge, Berlin, Germany, 2017
• Untitled, Art fair, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA, 2017
• Contemporary Art Ruhr: Media Art Fair, Director's Lounge, Essen, Germany, 2014
• Late at the Tate, Tate Modern, London, UK, 2008
• Obliteration and Focus, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, 2003