George Aguilar (born in San Mateo, California, United States, on February 22, 1966) is an American digital filmmaker, machinimatographer and new media artist. An award-winning filmmaker and former Executive Director of the National Poetry Association. He was the creator of the term "Cin(E)-Poetry" in 1996 and an authority on the mixture of poetry and the media arts.
[]
Biography
Born in 1966 in San Mateo, California, attended Serra High School and the University of California San Diego, where he studied media production, sociology and biology receiving a bachelor's degree in Media Production in 1989. Moved to San Francisco and became director of the Annual Poetry Film Video Festival from 1991-1996. Executive Director of the National Poetry Association (NPA) between 1996-2000. Retired from the NPA to travel, teach and create works called Cin(E)-Poetry (also partly known as video poetry), a term he coined in 1996.
Advises international groups on developing their own poetry media festivals and advocates the poetry-in-media artform to schools, film festivals and online distributors. Currently designing machinima for clients using virtual worlds and promoting his award-winning experimental poetry film, DIARY OF NICLAS GHEILER in 2008.George Aguilar Home Page
|