Victor Acevedo is an American digital artist working in prints and video who coined the term Electronic Visual Music, or EVM, in 2013.He trained as a painter before becoming an early adopter of pre-Windows, pre-Mac OS desktop software for fine art in the early 1980s.His hybrid imagery combines geometric abstraction with figuration, and his later EVM work synchronizes video with sound to evoke synesthesia.,
Acevedo began as an art student in 1977, and in 1980 took a class on Expanded Cinema with Gene Youngblood at ArtCenter College of Design, where a screening of Ed Emshwiller's Sunstone introduced him to visual music.His work draws on the geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics and on Fritjof Capra's The Tao of Physics, which shaped his concept of a “void matrix” underlying his imagery.,In 1998 he was one of thirteen artists invited to exhibit alongside M.C. Escher's work at the “Escher Centennial Congress” in Rome. His 1990s print Tell Me the Truth was later acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London as part of the Patric Prince Computer Art Collection.
In 1989 Acevedo introduced the artist Michael J. Masucci to the art historian Patric Prince, and the two went on to found CyberSpace Gallery in Los Angeles in 1992 with Acevedo's help, one of the first galleries dedicated to digital art.,His work was shown there and in EZTV's 1990 exhibition “Art 1990”, alongside Rebecca Allen, David Em, and Vibeke Sorensen.
He began producing dedicated visual music video works in 2007, and first used the term Electronic Visual Music publicly at a 2019 performance at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. He began releasing work as NFTs on OpenSea in October 2021, and had his breakthrough in the format after collaborating with NFTuesday LA in 2023, releasing the print Metalogue v01.02 through objkt as an edition of 35.In 2024 he co-curated “DNA: Fourth of Four”, a 40-year retrospective of digital art featuring 24 artists, with Michael J. Masucci and Joan Collins at Santa Monica College.,
