Pixel pushers rejoice – the next Block Party has been confirmed for Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st October 2018. This year, Britain’s premier teletext festival will venture ‘up north’ to Wigan STEAM for a weekend of VBI...
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Dan Farrimond
Jason Robertson’s ‘Teletext Archaeologist’ Website Now Online
Teletext Archaeologist Jason Robertson has launched his new website, ‘A Visual and Interactive Teletext History’, which will focus on his continued efforts to recover teletext from an ever growing collection of video tapes in his garage...
Wigan Teletext Fest 2017: The Search for Extra-Teletextual Intelligence
At long last, Wigan Teletext Fest ’17 is upon us! While working at Wigan STEAM, Dan received what he believes to be messages from extra-terrestrial beings via his teletext TV set. In order to find out more about the messages, he has...
TeletextRtists feature in ‘Glitch’ exhibition opening today
A new exhibition featuring teletext art opens in Wigan today. Curated by MA Fine Art student Chel Logan, The Aesthetics of Failure showcases a variety of multimedia artworks responding to the theme of ‘glitch’. Among the pieces on...
Block Party Cambridge 2017 winning art now on ARD Text
A selection of the best art created at last weekend’s Block Party collaborative editing event is currently available to view on German teletext service ARD Text. Click here to launch the ARD Text online teletext viewer …or fire up Das...
All ARD Text Advent calendar art available to view
December is almost over, which means you can now view all 26 pieces of art from the ARD Text 2016 Advent calendar as a miniature teletexthibition. This project contains 10 existing designs from previous Teletext40 calendars (revamped) plus 16...
Four years since we said goodbye to Ceefax
Dan: And now, here’s something very special from the blokes at Ladbrokes. Take it away, chaps… 23rd October, 2012. That was the day that Ceefax officially stopped broadcasting, and the British public had to look elsewhere for football...
The ARD Teletext Artist Residency begins today
Are you ready for 30 days of teletext art? I hope so, because the ARDtist Residency has officially begun. From today until 30 September, I will be producing at least one new daily piece of art reacting to items posted on ARD Text. These could be...