PETER CALLAS is featured in Cognitive Dissidents: Reasons to be Cheerful, now open at Griffith University Art Museum. The exhibition examines the experimental practices central to the development of the video medium in Australian from the 1970s to the 1990s.
"Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Callas' work was often cited as a paradigm case of 'postmodern aesthetics' whereby video and digital technologies provided a means for the rapid, freewheeling interrelation of all kinds of imagery; this was supposedly aid and abet the developments of that shrinking, borderless, increasingly multicultural, globe. And it's easy to see how Callas' videos embody this potential, as they set in train elements drawn from various cultures, side-by-side, overlapping, fast and furious throbbing montage. Callas himself cites Japanese advertising as the protean form of this burgeoning aesthetic..."
- Stuart Koop, 2002
The exhibition continues until 9 April.
![Peter Callas, Neo-Geo: An American Purchase , 1990, CVI work, New York [still] 9:17 min](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54012345e4b0f72d40b6c44e/1582338004023-BJJ1KPTW4290T1A3MO6N/Callas+Neo-Geo.jpg)
![Peter Callas, Night’s High Noon: An Anti-terrain , 1988, CVI work, Sydney [still] 7:26 min](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54012345e4b0f72d40b6c44e/1582338012059-QM2MQCRRKRKPWRMRYDWY/Callas+High+Noon.jpg)
