Geoffrey Pugen

Canada

Geoffrey Pugen is an artist experimenting at the intersection of technology and nature through video, photo and installation. Thematically, Pugen contemplates speculative futures, transhumanism, the impact of nature on society and conflicts between the virtual and the real. His most recent sculptural work integrates video screen technology into architectural forms, creating spatially-synced multi-screen installations.


His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Transmediale, Berlin, WRO Biennial in Poland, Bienal De La Imagen En Movimiento, Buenos Aires, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Rotterdam Film Festival. He is a recipient of the K.M Hunter Award for Interdisciplinary Art.


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Refraction Field

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Refraction Field drifts through a luminous virtual landscape of rivers, soft hills, and distant golden mountains. On the horizon, a massive diamond-like hemisphere refracts light in mysterious ways, bending the surrounding world into shifting patterns of color and reflection. The scene feels calm and otherworldly, a speculative utopia shaped by light. In the final moments, two crystalline figures appear, as if formed from the hemisphere itself. They stand at the edge of the terrain, looking both outward across the landscape and back toward their origin, suspended in time.

technique

3d

format

landscape

duration

01:00

year

2023

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