As life's physical boundaries recede, new forms of travel become an exotic but prime necessity. The terrain for this contempo-travel is often an electronic space, undulating with visual and aural info. Images whirl about in a vast, cultural sensorium, bringing glimpses of global life to the confines of the individual soul. An Australian artist, Peter Callas has chosen this electronic terrain as the site for his critical peregrinations. In his videoworks, cultural bytes are carried along a complex stream of synthesized iconic images. To achieve this flow, Callas uses a Fairlight CVI synthesizer, layering found images and parodic simulations with purposefully abrasive backgrounds. His visual language is rhythmically hysterical and densely imagined, yet fragile in its pictorial timbres. The result is a highly animated, sometimes overwhelming barrage that rudely duplicates the geography of mediation. This is life in hyper-space where Pop mementos, subliminal recognitions and dehistoricized relics form the mind's travelogue. But Callas' work reminds us of a gritty dilemma-that is, the strategic use of overloaded imagery as a critique of the media glut. You have to be a fellow traveler to distinguish Callas' fine ironies in the electronic terrain of the future. Steve Seid Thanks to Art Com and Anna Couey for their assistance with this program.