navPeter Callas

geb. 1952 in Sydney, Australien, lebt und arbeitet in Sydney
1971-74 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Universität Sydney
1975-78 Assistenz Cutter/Tonmeister, Australian Broadcasting Commission Television, Sydney
1978-80 Diplom für Freie Kunst, Sydney College of The Arts
1981-82 Lehrauftrag, City Art Institute, Sydney College of The Arts, Sydney
1985 Tokio-Korrespondent, "Art Network Magazine", Tokio
1988 Lehrauftrag, City Art Institute und University of Technology, Sydney
1990 Lehrauftrag, City Art Institute und der Design School of The University of Technology, Sydney
1996-99 Lehrauftrag, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Ausstellungen: 

Einzelausstellungen

  • 1982-83 "Personal/Political", Video Gallery Scan, Tokio; Osaka Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka
  • 1985 "Video As Furniture & Fantasy", Image Forum, Tokyo.
  • 1987 "Technology As Territory: Video & Desire in Japan", Artspace, Sydney; Praxis, Perth; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
  • 1988 "Architectronics" (Retrospektive), Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
  • 1989 "Speed-Images: Video Architexture", Video Viewpoints, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 1990 "Alphabyte Cities: the Videos of Peter Callas", ICA, London
  • 1991 "Video Im", Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln
  • 1993 "Bilderbuch für Ernst Will", Australian Launch, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
  • 1995 "1st Buenos Aires International Festival of Video and Electronic Art" (Retrospektive), Recolleta Arts Center, Buenos Aires

Gruppenausstellungen/ Festivals

  • 1982/84 "International Festival of Video Art", Locarno
  • 1983 "L'Australie: le Reve et le Reel", Musée de l'art moderne, Paris
  • 1986/87/88/90/92 "Australian International Video Festival", Sydney
  • 1986 "Worldwide Video Festival", Den Haag
  • 1989 "Im Netz der Systeme", "Ars Electronica", Linz
  • "Siggraph '89", Boston
  • "Video & the Computer", Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 1991 "Muu Media Festival", Helsinki.
  • "Towards the Aesthetics of the Future", ICA, London
  • "WRO Sound Basis Visual Arts Festival", Wroclaw, Polen
  • 1992 Museum of Photography, Tokio
  • "Video: Two Decades", Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 1993 "European Media Art Festival", Osnabrück, Germany
  • 1994 "Ars Electronica", Linz
  • "Isea '94", Helsinki
  • 1995 MultiMediale 4, ZKM, Karlsruhe
  • "Telepolis", Goethe-Institut, Luxemburg
  • 1996 "Neo Geo: An American Purchase", Musée d'art Contemporain, Lyon
  • 1999 "Intitialising History" (Wanderausstellung) dLux media arts Sydney, Australian Center for Contemporary Art Melbourne, The National Gallery of Australia, Canberr, Australien

Auszeichnungen und Stipendien [Auswahl]

  • 1988 Erster Preis, "Australian Independent Video, 3rd Australian Video Festival", Sydney
  • 1989 "New Horizons Award for Innovation In New Media", International Society For The Arts, Sciences & Technology, Berkeley, USA
  • 1990 "Grand Prix De La Ville De Locarno", "International Festival of Video Art" Locarno
  • "Best Computer Art", "Videobrasil", São Paulo
  • 1991 Auszeichnung des "VIII International Film and Video Festival", Györ, Ungarn
  • 1994 "Lobende Erwähnung", Kategorie Computeranimation, "Prix Ars Electronica", Linz
  • "Golden Switchblade Award", New York "International Video Festival", New York
  • 1986 Gastkünstler, Marui Koendori Televison, Tokio
  • 1989 Gastkünstler im PS1 Studio, New York (USA)
  • 1994-95 Gastkünstler, ZKM Institut für Bildmedien, Karlsruhe
  • seit 1999 HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra, Australien
Werkverzeichnis: 

Auswahl

  • Singing Stone 1980 [Video]
  • Elementary Alphabetical 1981 [Videoinstallation]
  • Massage 1982 [Video]
  • Kiru Umi No Yoni/Cutting Like the Ocean 1983 [Videoinstallation]
  • 1979 Animals 1984 [Videoinstallation]
  • Image Music: Tim Donahue 1985 [Video]
  • How to Make the Famous Pisco Sour; A Videotape in Three Locations 1985 [Videoinstallation]
  • Bon Voyage 1986 [Video]
  • Night's High Noon; An Anti-Terrain 1988 [Video]
  • Neo Geo: An American Purchase 1988-89 [Video]
  • The Fujiyama Pyramid Project 1990-92 [Videoinstallation]
  • Bilderbuch für Ernst Will [Ernst Will's Picture Book]: A Euro Rebus 1990-93 [Video]
  • Refiguring the Media Image 1991[Videoinstallation]
  • Ambient Alphabet [c of meaning], 1992 [Video]
  • Men of Vision: Lenin + Marat [1992-95] [Multimedia Installation]
  • Lost in Translation 1994-99 [Computeranimation]
  • Luna Park mural 1995 [Installation]
Bibliographie: 

Auswahl

  • Thomas, Martin: "A Demonology of Television: The Videography of Peter Callas", in: Art and Australia, Bd. 32, Nr. 2, Sydney 1994; Callas, Peter: "Men of Vision Lenin & Marat", in: Multimediale 4, ZKM Karlsruhe (Hg.), Karsruhe 1995; Brereton, Kurt: "Virtual Topographics: An Interview with Peter Callas", in: Artlink: Arts in the Electronic Landscape, Bd. 16, Nr. 2 &3, 1996; Morse, Margaret: "Men of Vision Lenin & Marat", in: Hardware Software Artware. Die Konvergenz von Kunst und Technologie. ZKM Karlsruhe (Hg.), Ostfildern 1997
website: 
http://www.anu.edu.au/ITA/CSA/callas/

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