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".