Michael Betancourt
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| Born | 1971 New Jersey, US |
| Nationality | American |
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Temple University University of Miami |
| Known for | film maker, installation art, video art, visual music |
Michael Betancourt (born 1971) is a critical theorist, film theorist, art and film historian, and animator. His principal published works focus on the technologies of visual music, new media art and theory, and formalist study of motion pictures.
Betancourt's father is archaeologist Philip P. Betancourt, and his brother is author John Gregory Betancourt. He spent his summers in Crete, Greece, working as a photographer on his father's excavation at Pseira. His first film exhibition was Archaeomodern, shown in the Ann Arbor Festival of Experimental Film in 1993. In 1995, his film a self-referential film in 30 sentences won a Director's Citation award at the Black Maria Film Festival. Other works have screened in Art Basel Miami Beach, Contemporary Art Ruhr, Athens Video Art Festival, Festival des Cinemas Differents de Paris, Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, the San Francisco Cinematheque’s Crossroads, and Experiments in Cinema, among others. His video Telemetry screened as an installation during the first Athens Video Art Festival. Other installions were site-specific, as part of Art Basel Miami Beach: the Sites-Miami project in 2004, and at the South Florida Art Center’s 800 Lincoln Road exhibition space as part of the Face-to-Face series in 2011.
Betancourt was born in New Jersey in 1971. He attended Temple University in to study motion pictures, and then received an MA in Film Studies at the University of Miami studying under film historian William Rothman. He also received his Ph.D. from the University of Miami in Interdisciplinary Studies, focusing on Art History, Communications/Film Studies and History.
In addition to scholarly work, he has written popular articles and reviews on art, art theory and culture for The Atlantic, Make Magazine, Miami Art Exchange [2] and Art Scene magazines.
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