Arambilet
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Angel Luis Arambilet Alvarez [ARAMBILET] (born September 16, 1957 in Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo, known officially as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic. Its metropolitan population was 2,084,852 in 2003, and estimated at 3,294,385 in 2010. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River...

, Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

) is a writer, screenplayer, painter, graphic artist, filmmaker and systems engineer.

In the Latin America
Latin America
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n and Caribbean
Caribbean
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 region, he is considered the creator of the first short story (Artes y Letras [Arts & Literature], 1978) and the first graphical poems (combination of text and graphics- Arte y Cibernetica [Art and Cybernetics], 1978) using computerized linetext art or ASCII art
ASCII art
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.

Arambilet is included in the XX Century History of Computer Graphics and Digital Art sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH
ACM SIGGRAPH
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, presently being compiled by Anna Ursyn from the Department of Visual Arts of the University of Northern Colorado
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Dominican National Literary Award winner for his short stories ("The cayenne petals", 1994) and novel ("Neguri's secret", 2006).

Works

  • 1978 – Short stories trilogy (Artes y Letras)
  • 1993 – The Cayenne's petals (Los pétalos de la cayena, cuentos);Dominican National Literary Prize 1994; ISBN 84-89546-02-9.
  • 1994 – Secret zone (Zona secreta, poemas); ISBN 84-89546-00-2.
  • 1994 – Homo Sapiens; ISBN 84-89546-01-0.
  • 1996 – Quintet (quintento: Cinco historias de las tristes, relatos); ISBN 8489546037
  • 1997 – Insects (Insectos, humor gráfico); ISBN 84-89546-05-3
  • 1999 – Arambilet: Ten years and five series (1989–1999); (Arambilet: Diez años y cinco series, Casa Guayasamín, D.R.)
  • 2000 – The passions book (El libro de las pasiones, poesía); ISBN 99934-0-154-4
  • 2002 – XIX Biennal ELJ (Centro León. Bienal Eduardo León Jimenes). Collective works, D.R.
  • 2002 – Homo Sapiens: Characters to hang (Homo sapiens: Personajes para colgar) Individual exhibition, DPI art gallery, D.R.
  • 2002 – Soul's story (Las historias del alma, guión de TV); ISBN 99934-0-154-4
  • 2002 – Documentary (Miriam Calzada: Montecristi)
  • 2003 – XXII Visual Arts National Biennial (Bienal Nacional de Artes Visuales en el Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo D.R.)
  • 2003 – Documentary (Marcos Lora Read: Kid Kapicúa. Joan Guaita Art, Mallorca, Spain)
  • 2003 – Digital Videography. Arambilet: Series (1983–2003)
  • 2004 – XX Biennial ELJ (Centro León. Bienal Eduardo León Jimenes). Collective works, D.R.
  • 2005 – Neguri's secret (El secreto de Neguri, novela; Editorial Alfaguara); Dominican National Literary Prize 2005. ISBN 99934-0-154-4
  • 2005 – Documentary (El secreto de Neguri). Includes two short films based on Arambilet's novel, by cinematographers Peyi Guzmán and Esteban Martin.
  • 2005 – XXIII Visual Arts National Biennial (Bienal Nacional de Artes Visuales en el Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo D.R.)
  • 2006 – The golden manatee mystery (El misterio del manatí de oro; Screenplay); ISBN 9945-00-050-0
  • 2006 – Guarocuya (Screenplay); ISBN 9945-00-063-2
  • 2006 – Waltz/Vals (Short film. Barlovento CinemArt/24frame/s) Official selection XXI Biennial ELJ, and Rainier International Film Festival (RIFF) 2007.
  • 2006 – Sepiablue/Sepiazul (Short film. Barlovento CinemArt/24frame/s)
  • 2006 – Documentary. (In memoriam: Claudia. Barlovento CinemArt/24frame/s)
  • 2006 – Luck/La suerte (Short film. Barlovento CinemArt/24frame/s) Official Selection and Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film at the San Fernando Valley International Film Festival(VIFFI) 2007.
  • 2006 - Group exhibition: Artes/Miniaturas en portada. Viota Gallery, P.R.; Arte Berry, R.D.
  • 2006 – XXI Biennial ELJ (Centro León. Bienal Eduardo León Jimenes); Santiago, R.D.
  • 2007 – The distant counterbalance of the stars (Screenplay);
  • 2007 – In His image/A imagen y semejanza (Short film. Cinema Barlovento. Official selection XXII Biennial ELJ 2008. Honorable Mention of the Jury)
  • 2008 - Caribbean Kuleshov Effect/ Effecto Kuleshov Caribe (Short film.Cinema Barlovento. Official selection XXII Biennial ELJ 2008)
  • 2009 – Guarocuya (Historical drama);ISBN 145053192X
  • 2009 – Collective Works: Saatchi Online; Saatchi Gallery, UK.
  • 2009 – Collective DART-09:Puntos sobre las íes (Dot's on the i's); XIII International Conference & Exhibition on Information VisualizationIV09; Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, España
  • 2009 – Collective CGIV09:Puntos sobre las íes (Dot's on the i's); VI International Conference & Exhibition on Computer Graphics, Images and Visualization CGIV09; Tianjin, China
  • 2009 – Historias Breves (1988–1998), (Brief stories. Short stories anthology); ISBN 1449527698
  • 2009 – Arambilet: Shorts. XV Short Films Festival, Punta Umbría, Huelva, España. Guest Director.
  • 2010 – Arambilet: Shorts. XVI Spanish and Latin American International Film Festival. Cervantes Institute of Manchester & Leeds, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK. Guest Director.
  • 2010 – The book of passions (El libro de las pasiones), Poetry (Reedition 2010);ISBN 9993401544
  • 2010 - Specimen 1111 (Short Film. Cinema Barlovento). Premiered at XVI Spanish and Latin American International Film Festival. Cervantes Institute of Manchester & Leeds, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK. Exhibited at the Online Digital Gallery D-ART 2011 for the International Conference Information Visualization iV 2011 (London), and the International Conference “Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization” CGIV 2011 (Singapur).
  • 2010 - Orifiel, Novel.(FB/CS)ISBN 1450533930
  • 2010 - Collective Works. Ebre Terra de Vent, Palau Oliver de Boteller, Tortosa, Spain.
  • 2011 - The aragone's memoires (Memorias de un aragonés) (Documentary. Cinema Barlovento).
  • 2011 - Collective photo works Leica Oskar Barnack Award: Between real and surreal reside the abstraction
  • 2011 - Shadows (Sombras) (Short Film. Cinema Barlovento).

External links

  • http://education.siggraph.org/resources/cgsource/instructional-materials/history/luis-arambilet
  • http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Luis+Arambilet/110696.html
  • http://www.leica-oskar-barnack-award.com/#/en/contest/oskar-barnack-award-2011-entries/arambilet/1
  • http://www.youtube.com/user/arambilet
  • http://vimeo.com/arambilet/videos
  • http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV09/IV09_Book_of_Abstracts.pdf
  • http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2377216/
  • http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0857262/
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