Peter Callas has utilised a wide variety of electronic
and digital media to create an ongoing series of cultural 'portraits', making work
from varied locations, often during sustained periods of residence, in locations
such as Papua New Guinea, Japan, the United States, Germany, Brazil, and India as
well as Australia.
Callas' video works have won numerous awards including First Prize, Bonn Videonale;
Golden Switchblade Award, New York International Video Festival; Honourable Mention,
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; World Graph Prix, Euro Video Fest, Lisbon; Grand
Prix, International Festival of Video Art, Locarno; and Best Computer Art, Videobrasil,
São Paulo. He is also a recipient of the New Horizons Award for Innovation
in New Media, International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, Berkeley,
USA.
His works have been included in a number of significant group shows worldwide including
the Clemenger Contemporary Art Award Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne (2003); oZone: Australian digital media art, Pompidou Centre, Paris,
2003; Heterosis ó Digital Art from Australia, Centro Cultural Conde Duque,
ARCO, Madrid, 2002; Animania: 100 anni di esperimenti nel cinema di animazione,
Pesaro, Italy, 1998; Kwangju Biennale, Korea, 1995; Multimediale IV,
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany, 1995; Alternative
Realities: Australian Artists working with Technology, Ian Potter Gallery, University
of Melbourne and numerous venues throughout Asia; Identities: Art from Australia,
Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, 1994; Video Positive, Tate Gallery, Liverpool,
UK, 1993; Video: Two Decades, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1992; Strangers
in Paradise, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea, 1992; Third Emerging
Expression Biennial, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, 1991; Australian
Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1981, 1989, and 1991; 1st
Biennial of the Moving Image, Reina Sophia, Madrid, 1990; 1st Adelaide Biennial,
1990; Traversals: Instructions to the Double, Long Beach Museum of Art, 1990;
In Transit, Festival of Canterbury & Chisenhale Gallery, London, 1989;Video
and the Computer, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1989; Art of Music Video,
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach and US-wide tour, 1989 & 1990; European
Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany, 1988; Video Cocktail, Hara
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1986; Pleasure of the Gaze, Art Gallery
of Western Australia, Perth, 1985; Continuum `83, Video Gallery Scan, Tokyo,
1983; L'Australie: le Reve et le Reel, Museum of Modern Art, Paris, 1983;
and the Biennale of Sydney, 1982.
Many of his video works are in the permanent collections of numerous museums worldwide
including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Kunstmuseum, Bonn; and the National
Gallery of Australia, Canberra. His photomedia prints have been collected by the
National Gallery of Australia; the National Gallery of Victoria; the Parliamentary
Art Collection; the Art Gallery of NSW; the Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne; Queensland
Art Gallery; and Art Bank.
Callas has held retrospective screenings of his video works at the Kunstverein, Cologne;
the ICA, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Berlin Film Festival.
His videos have been screened frequently on television stations worldwide, including
BBC2, London; Canal +, Paris; SAT1, Cologne; WGBH, Boston; NHK Satellite, Tokyo;
and Television Española, Madrid.
Amongst many commissions he has completed work for Carnivale, Sydney; Luna Park,
Sydney; the Adelaide Festival; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the Powerhouse
Museum, Sydney; the Australian Bicentennial Travelling Exhibition; and Pioneer Laserdisc,
Tokyo.
In 2002-03 Asialink toured Peter Callas: Anti-Terrain, a major solo exhibition of
Callas' video and photomedia print works, to Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
; the Art Museum of the China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China; and the National
Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India.
Callas has been artist-in-residence at Marui Koendori Television, Marui Department
Store, Tokyo, 1986; the Visual Arts/Craft Board Studio, PS1, New York, 1989; and
at ZKM, Centre for Art and Media, in Karlsruhe, Germany, 1994-1996. In 1999 Peter
Callas was the HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellow at the Australian National University,
Canberra. In 2001-02 he and his wife, jeweller Yuri Kawanabe, undertook a four month
Asialink residency at Sanskriti Kendra in Delhi, India. In 2003-2005 Peter Callas
is an Australia Council Fellow. His fellowship project is Il Trionfo della Morte,
an animated interpretation of a 14th century in Pisa, commissioned by Ondavideo,
Pisa.
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