Videotape of performance recorded in Tokyo, Japan, 1975. Shown at the Biennale of Sydney 1976.
10min video in collaboration with Gary Hillberg
Adorno/Bueller; Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, 1977, ed. Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann, trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor, University of Minnesota Press, 1997, pp 243-244; Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, dir. John Hughs, 1986, minutes 4:36-5:47. Scott Cupper, Shariba Rivers, Ben Veatch, Shawn Pfautsch, Carolyn Defrin, Jason Economus, Jennifer Shin.
Submission begins with a monochromatic blue wall, which is interrupted slowly, first by a shadow, then by voices, and finally by a glimpse of the room in which the blue wall sits.
Video documentation of an action
Documentation of an action High Definition video 16:9, colour, sound
Fatty Acid: The School of Cage 1975, b&w, NTSC. Performed: UCSD, 1975; documentary video tape in collaboration with Ronald Al Robboy and David Dunn, camera work by Ed Emshwiller, 45 mins.
colour, NTSC, video and sound synthesis, 25 mins. Performed: UCSD 1975, CHCMC, Melbourne, 1976.
Adelaide Festival Video (1991), 00:30 mins, Sydney/Adelaide. CVI and Abekas A64 imagery used to create an electronic ‘poster’ to accompany the print poster which I produced for the 1992 Adelaide Festival. [Peter Callas]
Australian Video Festival Commercials (1987), 2 x 00:30 mins, Sydney. CVI imagery used as call for entries for the Australian Video Festival. [Peter Callas]
Bilderbuch fur Ernst Will (Ernst Will's Picture Book): A Euro Rebus (1990-93), 11:00 mins, Sydney.
Bon Voyage (1986), 4:35 mins, Tokyo. Produced for the theatre group Island (directed by Koharu Kisaragi) for the opening event of Seed Hall, an event space atop Seed department store in Tokyo in 1986. The imagery utilises a similar two frame animation technique elsewhere employed in the tape Double Trouble. The...
Curtain (1980), 4:00 mins, Sydney. Curtain is an early experimental work in which Callas’ physical presence is of central importance. In this work, close-ups of the artist’s face are intercut by a photograph of a night time streetscape illuminated by street lights. The filmed movement of transparent layers of lithographic film...
Double Trouble (1986), 5:23 mins, Tokyo. One of the earliest works made by Callas using a Fairlight Computer Video Instrument (CVI) processor, a pioneering compositing and special effects system he utilised regularly from the mid 1980s to early 90s. The CVI was a hybrid of video and computing technologies which enabled...
East Meets West (Sandii & the Sunsetz), (1986), 3:37 mins, Tokyo Music video produced for Sandii and the Sunsetz. [Peter Callas]
I Would Have Run But I Had A Heavy Cold (1980), 15:00 mins, Sydney. In I Would Have Run But I Had A Heavy Cold I enter the water beside a pontoon on the Hawkesbury River near Sydney. As speedboats zoom by with skiers in trail I crawl out of the...
If Pigs Could Fly (The Media Machine), (1987), 4:20 mins, Sydney.
Image Music: Tim Donahue (1985) 4:43 mins, Tokyo. Image Music was the first piece I completed with the Fairlight CVI. It was made for American musician Tim Donahue, who was living in Tokyo and had invented a marvelous instrument which he called the “harp guitar”.The tape consists of impressions of the music...
Karkador (1986), 2:55 mins, Tokyo. Commissioned by Pioneer Laser Disk for a project titled “AV Cocktail” (representing the 5th anniversary of laser disk in 1996). Produced by Tyrell Corp, Tokyo with music by P-Model.