Geoffrey Pugen
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Career
Working with video, film, performance, and photography, Pugen explores alternate realities through simulating and re-contextualizing media histories.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
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art was founded from the former Art Gallery of North York in 1999, and exists as a not-for-profit, arms-length agency of the City of Toronto...
, World Wide Short Film Festival, Berlin Transmediale International Media Arts Festival
Berlin Transmediale International Media Arts Festival
The Berlin Transmediale International Media Arts Festival, is a forum promoting communication between artists, media workers and the public, focusing on art and digital culture. Transmediale includes exhibitions, conferences, live performances, artist presentations and a variety of fringe events...
, European Media Art Festival, and the Poland 12th International Media Art Biennale WRO 07. Publications include Adbusters
AdBusters
The Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, anti-consumerist, pro-environment organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia...
, Descant Magazine and Future Species. He is a recipient of the K.M. Hunter Award for Interdisciplinary art.