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Author:Michael Betancourt
A Short Guide to Writing About Motion Graphics
"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...- $19.95
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Art, AI and Culture
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...- $18.95
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Author:Michael Betancourt
Cinematic Articulation in Motion Graphics
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. This interdisciplinary approach begins with the problems posed by motion perception to develop a model...- $160.00
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Author:Michael Betancourt
Glitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics
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...- $69.95
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Glitch Art in Theory and Practice: Critical Failures and Post-Digital Aesthetics
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...- $22.95
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Glitch Theory: Art and Semiotics
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...- $30.00
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Author:Michael Betancourt
Harmonia: Glitch, Movies and Visual Music
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...- $39.99
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Author:Michael Betancourt
History of Motion Graphics
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...- $35.00
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Author:Michael Betancourt
Ideologies of the Real in Title Sequences, Motion Graphics and Cinema
This book explores the question of realism in motion pictures. Specifically, it explores how understanding the role of realism in the history of title sequences in film can illuminate discussions raised by the advent of digital cinema.Ideologies of the Real in Title Sequences, Motion...- $170.00
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Author:Michael Betancourt
Portfolio
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,...- $34.95
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Research Art: glitches, poetics, typography and the aura of the digital
"Research Art: glitches, poetics, typography and the aura of the digital" is about margins and marginality in the art world as sources for critical engagements in the studio. It builds on the pioneering work of critical theorist and artist Michael Betancourt, who has used...- $24.95
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Author:Michael Betancourt
Structuring Time (Second Edition)
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...- $19.95
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Author:Michael Betancourt
The Critique of Digital Capitalism: An Analysis of the Political Economy of Digital Culture and Technology
Anything that can be automated, will be. The "magic" that digital technology has brought us - self-driving cars, Bitcoin, high frequency trading, the internet of things, social networking, mass surveillance, the 2009 housing bubble - has not been considered from an ideological perspective. The...- $22.00
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Author:Michael Betancourt
The History of Motion Graphics
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...- $29.95
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Author:Michael Betancourt
Thomas Wilfred's Clavilux
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 performed live, or set-up as...- $24.95
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Author:Michael Betancourt
Title Sequences as Paratexts: Narrative Anticipation and Recapitulation
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...- $24.95
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Author:Michael Betancourt
Toonzy!: the cartoon role-playing game
The ENnie Award nominated Toonzy is a fun and zany cartoon role-playing game. It has funny characters who do hilarious and outlandish things, engage in slapstick comedy, encounter bizarre scenarios, and parody real life. That is to say, this a game in which the...- $29.95
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Visual Music Instrument Patents: Volume One
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...- $24.95
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