The official site for Dr. Michael Betancourt: critical theory, movies, gltich, and art. Betancourt is a critical theorist and research artist who works with movies and static imagery. A pioneer of glitch, he has worked with databending images and video since the 1990s. He produced his first visually seductive glitch works by bringing the visionary tradition into the present: by emphasizing their digital origins, his aesthetics allows the viewer to find poetic meaning in everyday life. His movies