Announcements
It has been exactly fifty years since the world’s first teletext service, Ceefax, launched in September 1974. As part of the birthday festivities, Finnish...
Hi, what are you looking for?
Teletext Art
- Events
- Past Block Parties
- Teletext50
#Teletext50 art exhibition on Yle Text in Finland (7 October – 11 November 2024)
Teletext 50th Anniversary Meetup, Cambridge, 21-22 September 2024
Teletext @50: The Stories – Video Documentary (2024)
Teletext50: a new audio documentary starring those who made it a cultural phenomenon [PRESS RELEASE]
Call for entries: 50 Years of Teletext Art! [CLOSED]
- Cambridge 2022
- Blockdown 2020
- Wigan 2018
- Cambridge 2017
- Cambridge 2016
[Audio] Teletext Fest 2016 – Digitiser Panel with Paul Rose, Tim Moore and Violet Berlin
[Audio] Teletext Fest 2016 – Guests Panel with Violet Berlin and Tim Moore
[Audio] Teletext Fest 2016 – Artists Panel with Paul Rose and Steve Horsley
[Audio] Teletext Fest 2016 – Experts Panel with Mort Smith and Peter Kwan
[Video] Digifest: Quiz Me Do!
- Teletext50
- Group Exhibitions
30 Jahre Videotext (30 Years of Teletext) contest, ARD Text (2010)
Da Vinci 500, ARD Text (2019)
International Teletext Art Festival: A History (2012-2015)
Celebrating 45 Years of Yle Text with teletext art (7-31 October 2026)
Yle 100 on Yle Text: A Super Teletexthibition (9 September – 31 October 2026)
- Calls For Entries
CALL FOR ENTRIES: HBN Text’s 1st Birthday (17 November 2026)
CALL FOR ENTRIES – Teletext Advent Calendar on Yle Text (December 2026)
[CLOSED] CALL FOR ENTRIES: Valentine’s Day 2026 on Yle Teksti-TV! Love Letters from Your (Teletext) Heart
[CLOSED] CALL FOR ENTRIES – 100 Years of Yle & Yle Teletext’s 45th Anniversary (September & October 2026)
[CLOSED] CALL FOR ENTRIES – 2025 Teletext Advent Calendar on Yle Text
- Past Block Parties
- Podcast
- Teletext R Podcast
- Episodes
Teletext R Podcast Summer Special! Teletext Doomscrolling 1976 vs. 2026 & Count ‘Ceefax’ Binface (July 2026)
[Audio] Teletext People: Tim, Twitter’s Ceefaux
BHNL Podcast: Teletextlore
Teletext R Podcast, 31st December 2022 – Russty Russ & the Demise of ORACLE (2015 Rerun)
The Max Headroom Incident: Television Sofa Club, 15th November 2022
- Episodes
- Teletext R Podcast
- Features
- Teletext Artist Spotlight
Teletext Artist Spotlight: JustADude
Teletext R Podcast, 31 August 2020 – Sara Scott-Rivers of Teletext Ltd, Datasolve, ITM, GWV and Videotron
Artist Spotlight: Sarah Burgess (Make Today Colourful)
Teletext Artist Spotlight: Little Cat
Interview: Dragan Espenschied, Digital Conservationist & Teletext Art Prize Winner
- Editorial
- Teletext Artist Spotlight
Announcements
Sé-bastieeeen!* Angine de Poitrine, those limber polka-dotted math-surf-jazz rock wizards from an unpronounceable solar system, have recently crash landed on Planet Teletext. Documenting this...
Sticky Post
This month, Finland’s fabled Yle Text welcome more teletext art for the occasion of their 45th birthday! ASCII-style lettering, traditional Hungarian patterns, optical illusions...
Announcements
On 9 September 2026, Yleisradio Oy (AKA the Finnish Broadcasting Company) will celebrate its 100th anniversary with the scintillating sixels and astounding alphanumerics of...
Announcements
Yle Text are presently screening a selection of artworks from the innovative First Excursions in Teletext, Norway’s pioneering academic research into the medium as...
Announcements
Note: this exhibition has ended :( Valentine’s greetings and Hyvää ystävänpäivää to all friends of Teksti-TV! As of today, the teletext community is celebrating...
Announcements
The festival of love has arrived, dear teletexters! Springtime invites warmer days and the flourishing of flora and fauna, the season of “rebirth, rejuvenation,...
Announcements
It’s a surprise party! Don’t tell teletext, but we’re hosting a get-together in its honour. Shhhh…. On the weekend of 21st and 22nd of...
Announcements
Teletext50: a new audio documentary starring those who made it a cultural phenomenon [PRESS RELEASE]
[ View as Google Doc ] UK, 14 June 2024 It’s a 50 year-old story that was two years in the making. In this...
Announcements
In September of this year, teletext will be hitting the half century, the big five-oh. To celebrate this milestone, Ceefax’s golden anniversary, we will...
Announcements
The teletext community are once again collaborating to create festive cheer with their now-customary Advent calendars! This selection box of brand new teletext art...
Announcements
The community teletext Advent calendar will be returning for December 2023, and we’re accepting submissions now! Last year’s event was broadcast across Finland on...
Announcements
This December, Carlos will be hosting a multimedia event projecting teletext pages onto Jaywick Martello Tower. Dubbed the ‘Last [Ever] Teletext Show (2023)’, the...
Announcements
Dig out your sunglasses 3D glasses, because a new summer of teletext art has begun! 😎 A total of 17 international artists will be...
Announcements
Exciting news! This summer, we will be doing a small teletext art crossover project with ARD Text (Germany) and Yle Text (Finland). Until 28th...
Announcements
Finland’s Yle Teksti-TV will once again be broadcasting their world-renowned teletext art Advent calendars, all-new for 2022. You’d think it’s becoming a yearly tradition...
Announcements
Yystävänpäivä (Friend’s Day) is upon us, and for 2022, Finland’s friendly Yle Text are showcasing artwork on the theme of ‘love’. Featuring the work...
Announcements
Following the rip-roaring success of April’s Blockdown Party @Home, we are pleased to confirm that the teletext party Blocktober will be returning this autumn....