Michael Betancourt

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Michael Betancourt

Joined Metalabel 07/22/2025

Dr. Michael Betancourt is a Cuban-American research artist who has cultivated a conceptual-theoretical practice that combines media art production with discursive, critical analysis focused on art history, digital technology, and capitalist ideology. A pioneer of "Glitch Art," he has made visually seductive digital art since 1990 that brings the

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Cinegraphic Media
EUPRAXIS: media art procedural deck by Michael Betancourt

Available

Eupraxis cards provide prompts for artists working with media art that can be employed at any time to glitch their production process.

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Cinegraphic Media
Toonzy! The Cartoon Role Playing Game

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Toonzy! The Cartoon Role Playing Game

by Michael Betancourt

Free

TOONZY! is the 2016 ENNIE nominated "Best Free Game"! You and your friends assume the roles of cartoon characters in a hilarious setting.

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CMYK – 52 Typoems :: 4 typefaces | 4 letters | 4 sections  by Michael Betancourt

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CMYK is an asemic poetry book published by Swedish press Timglaset. It was their blackest book ever and simultaneously one of their most colorful. Now out of print, it was originally published in an edition of 99 copies, and was a winner in The Society of Typographic Arts 45th STA100 in 2024

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Glitch Movies by Michael Betancourt

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Glitch Movies by Michael Betancourt

by Michael Betancourt

$20+

A blueray disk of Glitch Art pioneer Michael Betancourt's movies, including all 6 episodes of Going Somewhere, The Kodak Moment, and the Dark Rift. This is an unnumbered limited edition of 100 copies that comes shrink wrapped with a "Broken By Design" sticker on the package. Universal encoding — plays in zones A, B and C.

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Asemic Santa — asemic print and record by Michael Betancourt

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"Asemic Santa" is a 7" 45rpm recording of a song based on an asemic poem. This edition has 42 numbered copies.