Geoffrey Pugen’s sixth solo exhibition at MKG127, Webtology: Prisms, explores speculative futures through digital collage, integrating sourced imagery, 3D modeling, and AI-generated textures. Pugen begins by extracting and manipulating fragments from science fiction novel covers—erasing elements, generating new ones, and assembling them into new compositions, resulting in a form of what the artist refers to as “techno paintings”. This transformed imagery is then collaged with additional textures and details, with the final layer integrating 3D models rendered in wireframe. The final layer is a repurposed 3M Prism Film (BEF) from discarded LCD screens, adhered with hand-painted glue techniques that creates shifting depths of transparency and reflectivity. Through this process, a hauntology emerges where past utopian dreams resurface as echoes of futures yet unrealized.

The exhibition features two video sculptures and 2D prism collages, focusing on the evolving relationship between technology and ecology. The video sculptures take the form of a black hole and a crystal, each representing opposing yet interconnected forces: the void of technological collapse and the refractive possibilities of regeneration. Using synchronized video, these sculptures immerse viewers in an atmospheric interplay of light, motion, and form.

Geoffrey Pugen explores relationships between real and staged performance, the natural and the artificial, and tensions of virtual identity, through altering and manipulating images. Working with video, film, performance and photography, Pugen renders situations that examine our perceptions of how history, documentation, and simulation intersect. Through his interdisciplinary practice, Pugen focuses on speculative futures, environmental themes, transhumanism, and the impact of technology on our natural world, creating immersive, hybrid realities that challenge the boundaries between reality and fiction. His videos and art have been exhibited nationally and internationally. He is a recipient of the K.M Hunter Award for Interdisciplinary art.