Geoffrey Pugen

Geoffrey Pugen (born 1975) is a Toronto-based video artist.

Career

Working with video, film, performance, and photography, Pugen explores alternate realities through simulating and re-contextualizing media histories.[1][2]

Pugen has made several works that have been shown internationally including Utopics, Sahara Sahara, and Bridge Kids.

Pugen has exhibited his art, films and videos at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art,[3] World Wide Short Film Festival, Berlin Transmediale International Media Arts Festival, European Media Art Festival, and the Poland 12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07. Publications include Adbusters, Descant Magazine and Future Species. He is a recipient of the K.M. Hunter Award for Interdisciplinary art.


Pugen is currently represented by MKG127 in Toronto. [4]


gollark: I don't think I would actually enjoy subsistence farming and the worse housing/consumer goods of the past.
gollark: The "aliens" in most sci-fi are thinly disguised humans and people don't mind that very much.
gollark: There are probably libraries for it, but I just have an incredibly janky implementation based on weekday numbering.
gollark: It was very simple apart from actually rendering the calendar like that, which was oddly hard.
gollark: I realize now that I forgot to unhardcode the month and year, but whatever.

References
  1. Gabrielle Moser, Esse NO 73 — Intercourse: Art as transaction, 2011.
  2. Jen Hutton, Art Forum, Critics' Picks, March 2, 2011.
  3. David Liss. “Hybrids.” Future Species, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 2009, Pg. 12-13, 27-30.
  4. http://mkg127.com/artists-mkg/geoffrey/
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