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Michael Betancourt is a critial theorist, art historian, curator, and multi-disciplinary artist. His essays have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic; journals such as Leonardo, Semiotica and CTheory have published his essays; he has edited five books on visual music technologies invented by artists such as Thomas Wilfred, Mary Hallock-Greenewalt, and Oskar Fischinger. In the course of this research, he discovered the oldest surviving hand-painted abstract films, done in 1916 by inventor and artist Mary Hallock-Greenewalt. In 2006, he produced The iotaCenter's Visual Music From Iota DVD anthology. See also: www.michaelbetancourt.com www.twitter.com/cinegraphic www.cinegraphic.net (the avant-garde film & video blog)

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