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#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
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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...
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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...
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On 9 September 2026, Yleisradio Oy (AKA the Finnish Broadcasting Company) will celebrate its 100th anniversary with the scintillating sixels and astounding alphanumerics of...
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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...
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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...
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The festival of love has arrived, dear teletexters! Springtime invites warmer days and the flourishing of flora and fauna, the season of “rebirth, rejuvenation,...
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In place of the postponed Block Party, we invite you to join the inaugural BLOCKDOWN Party! Saturday 25th April 2020, 10AM-???* (BST) *We intend...
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The physical Block Party might have been put on hold, but its teletext art competition lives on! David at Arbitrary Files is hosting this...
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The artwork of Steve Horsley and Dan Farrimond features in a new article examining how the Internet facilitates teletext as an artistic genre. Written...
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Voting for the Bloktoberfest Teletext Art Comp has now closed, and the results are in. But before announcing the winners, we would like to...
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Voting has now closed! Votes cast from today onwards will not be counted. — 1 Nov 2018 Like many a teletext page from months...
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This competition has ended – thank you to everyone who participated! The Block Party is now accepting entries for its teletext art competition! You...
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It’s a secret no more – the legendary Steve ‘Horsenburger’ Horsley is returning to your TV screens in September 2018. Germany’s ARD Text have...
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Pixel pushers rejoice – the next Block Party has been confirmed for Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st October 2018. This year, Britain’s premier teletext...
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At long last, Wigan Teletext Fest ’17 is upon us! While working at Wigan STEAM, Dan received what he believes to be messages from...
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Teletext archaeologist Jason Robertson (@grim_fandango) has uncovered a rare example of Ceefax’s much-celebrated holidays section. This service predates Teletext Holidays by many years, though...
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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...