Alphabyte Cities: The Architecture of Peter Callas
Art + Text, Spring 1988, no. 28, pp. 74-81
Issues of electronic visual culture, popular culture, commercialism, and urbanity are found in the works of Peter Callas. Urban Japan is discussed as the apex of public and commercial visual space conjoined into spectacle. "Peter Callas' videos, by precise electronic manipulation of these ideogrammatic objects, situate themselves within an 'architectonics' of meaning which denies the objectness of the urban environment's subject matter, while at the same time avoiding the obvious misappropriation of such art by commerce".
ITEM 1988.091 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Kinema No Yoru (1986) – Peter Callas
Karkador (1986) – Peter Callas
The Esthetics of Disappearance (1986) – Peter Callas
If Pigs Could Fly, the Media Machine (1987) – Peter Callas
Our Potential Allies (1980) – Peter Callas
Cutting Like the Ocean (1983-6) – Peter Callas
Osamu Tezuka
Andy Warhol
Marcel Duchamp