It means rethinking how things are typically done and imagining something
entirely new and different. - G. Aguilar
Online since 1996, this website showcases my innovative work with cin(e)-poetry or cinematic(electronic)-poetry, with machinima and mashups and webvideos and films designed using unorthodox approaches to new media technologies. (See Videos)
One feature is the award-winning cinematic mashup Diary of Niclas Gheiler, written, edited and produced by me highlighting alternative, new media
methods in storytelling.
You can also view media works I've created and curated for arts groups and business clients via my YOUTUBE page.
At heart, I am a new media "one-man-band", capable of writing,
directing and producing in a variety of different artforms in a wide range
of genres and styles including film, animation, machinima and music. (See Bio)
Much of my work is regularly presented in universities and arts centers
around the world and the subject of several academic books and articles.
Major Innovations and Accomplishments: 1994 - Built and designed one of the first websites for a non-profit literary arts organization. Encyclopedia Britannica called it “one of the best websites”
1995 - Streamed video poems via the Internet with early adoptees NetVideo and
Blue Wolf Network.
1994 - Created and built the LTV archive of videos and films (over 600 titles)
1996 - Developed and coined the term "Cin(E)-Poetry", a growing new
genre taught in universities globally.
1998 - Employed early video webcasting technology for literary/arts presentations.
1999- Sponsored the SF National Poetry Slam Champions featured on '60 Minutes'.
2000 - Produced major live literary event at Masonic Theater in San Francisco
headlined by Maya Angelou.
2001 - Traveled to North America and Europe teaching educators how to create
edited videos via laptop.
2003 - Established on-demand video streaming for major cultural center in San Francisco
2003-2005 Produced and edited over 50 half hour shows titled SomArtsMedia for Cable
tv.
2008 - Created the first virtual reality replica of a major San Francisco cultural
center and developed "mirror" exhibitions for global audiences
via Second Life. Architect and curator for the ground-breaking "Synthetic
Masquerade" mixed reality.
2009 - Wrote, directed and produced mixed-reality film THE SUNFISHER. Testimonials: "To My Beloved" is an outstanding machinima. All aspects (light,
camera angles, costumes, story, etc) worked together to create a piece
of art. -Pia Klaar,Teacher Aug. 17,2009, Machinima Award 2009
"I admire your work and want to bring larger attention to it." - Kevin Stein, Poet Laureate of Illinois
"Your second life gallery is one of the most unique presentations of art I've seen in a while." -Robert Berry, Curator Ico Gallery, New YorkCity
Wow! The videos are GREAT! I'm amazed at your turn around time on this. Thank you so much!!
-Jessica Brown, Event Organizer, Expo for Independent Arts 2009
"I really appreciate all of your efforts on behalf of Visual
Aid and your support of many others in the community." -Julie Blankenship
"George Aguilar’s Second Life pursuits, challenge our precepts of how films may be created in the future." -Glendale Daily Planet
"George Aguilar’s DIARY OF NICLAS GHEILER was one of the best films
of 2008" -Berkeley Daily Planet
"You have provided many struggling artists a magnificent service and opportunity for art, that would otherwise have gone relatively unnoticed." -Rebecca Woolis, Berkeley Creative Living Center
"I have been browsing your movies and am enjoying them. I am very
impressed." -Henry Lowood, Curator of History of Science & Technology, Stanford.
"The EIGHTH annual Expo for the Artist & Musician went off in
grand style in Sept. 15 at SomArts. Thanks to George Aguilar of SomArts
Media for making this great video of the event.." -Expo for the Artist and Musician
"George, I will always be grateful to you for your wisdom, talent
and kindness.." -Helen Greico, former Pres. N.O.W., CEO SheInstitute.
"Dear Mr. Aguilar,
Thank you for the lovely Jack Davis tribute. I had been a fan of his since
the early SCR days but lost track of him. I was in San Francisco doing
'Phantom' back in the 90s and I was over at SOMA several times, not realizing
that Jack was there. Thanks again...wonderful work."
-Richard Gould, Actor
Thanks for stopping by. Email me or check back often to see what's new.
George Aguilar
Site and media by George Aguilar. Background paintings
courtesy of A. Paul
2012 - George Aguilar has been invited to speak at the: I International Symposion of Videopoetry
(Dialogs between image, sound and verbal language)
Nov-Dec 2012, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA Dear George, You are very important tor us as one of the first artists in videopoetry.
It will be great if you can come to Argentina. -Javier Robledo, Conference Organizer
2012 - George Aguilar has been invited to speak and give a workshop on 'Machinima/Mash-ups and the New Storytelling Frontier'
at the:
A PLACID OCEAN OF UNCERTAIN LIBERTIES:
Machinima by G. Aguilar aka C. Hirvi
Words by G. Aguilar aka C. Hirvi Awards 2011
-MachinimUWA IV ANTON MESMER Special Award
-OPEN THIS END AWARD OF EXCELLENCE FOR FILM NARRATIVE
WARRIORS OF ALIVENESS:
Machinima by G. Aguilar aka C. Hirvi
Poetry by Martina Pfeiler, Title inspiration courtesy of Adam Shames Awards 2011 -Official Selection MaMachinima Festival 2011
-Grand Prize Winner: Berkeley Video and Film Festival 2011
-Open This End' Award of Excellence in Film 2011
- MachinimUWA III Special Award for
INTERPRETATION AND DELIVERY 2011 OFFICIAL SELECTION: International Society forTechnology in Education
Community of Practice Machinima
"After reviewing the wonderful diversity of machinima that was submitted,
we realized that we needed to create an additional category to celebrate
machinima that inspires us. Rarely do we get a front row seat to watch
the development of a new art form. These pioneers are showing us the way
by illuminating what is possible!" - ISTE 2011
COMMENTS
"Wow, this is amazing work, the detail is so rich. You have such a talent for writing script and storyboarding. I'm going to integrate this somewhere in my teaching."
-Lisa Dawley, Ph.D., Professor & Chair, Dept. of Educational Technology,Boise
State University, Chair, ARVEL SIG, Co-Chair, Mobile Learning SIG
"Wow!!! Such an incredible range—of stunning images, of imaginative perspectives, of very serious drama and offbeat humor."-Adam Shames, CEO, The Kreativity Network: www.kreativity.net, Helping organizations build cultures of innovation and collaboration
I showed 'Warriors" to a number of students in my office and they
were stunned by it:" Martina Pfeiler, Ph.D., University of Dortmund, Germany--American Studies
Department
"The imagination and the professionalism shows. Good to see the return
of the diagetic. -Sally Caves , Professor of English, University of Rochester
"Beautifully done Cecil" -Jay Jay Jegathesan, School Manager, UWA Festval Producer, School of Physics,
The University of Western Australia
"Thank you George for all your support, the time you spent with me,
your ideas, encouragement, resources, references etc". -T. Konyves 2011
2010- "Perhaps no one has done more to fuel the interaction of poetry and
film than digital artist and filmmaker George Aguilar." -Kevin Stein, Poetry’s Afterlife:Verse in the Digital Age (University of Michigan Press, 2010).This volume surveys the current state of American poetry, traces how we
arrived at this point, and suggests where we’re going given technological
innovations in the ways poetry is written as well as distributed. Kevin Stein is former poet laureate of Illinois,, National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellow and Professor of English
and Director of Creative Writing Program at Bradley University .
2010- Featuring several Cin(E)-Poems by the American Filmmaker and Artist George
Aguilar. Poetry Goes Intermedia is a new German publication by Dr. Martina Pfeiler and encompass intersections of American Studies, Cultural Studies and Media Studies. It also presents how U.S. literary works have been (co-) emerging in and with all kinds of print and electronic media throughout the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
"A must read for any educator/student!" -G. Aguilar
Cin(E)-Poetry: Engaging the Digital Generation in 21st-Century Response
2010- "It was the work of Cin(E)-Poet George Aguilar and teacher David Bengston, co-presenters of a session at NCTE's annual
convention in 2001, that inspired the project I report here." - D. Stuart. Cin(E)-Poetry: Engaging the Digital Generation in 21st-Century Response is a journal article by Prof. Denise Stuart and published by the National Council of Teachers of English.
2010 -The Library of the Leo Baeck Institute of New York adds film Diary of Niclas Gheiler to its permanent collection for future generations to study.
2010- "A hauntingly beautiful primordial poem of evolution....and visually
well done!!!!" "I Am Evolution", is a NOVA/WGBH Lab favorite created by George Aguilar in collaboration w/ poet M. Ricciardi.
"Aguilar continues his series of virtual films, unleashing his avatar
alter ego Cecil Hirvi in Second Life for another installment of “Machinima
Poetry.” This episode finds Hirvi finding himself as he gazes into the
media mirror, watching old Hollywood footage of young soldier’s uncertain
return from the battlefield to the open fields of Wyoming."
DEC09: Elegantly Forbidden, The Sunfisher, Future O, The Biggest Grief of All,
To My Beloved has been shortlisted as one of the Singapore Shooot Awards Finalists!
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