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As the medium spread worldwide in the late 1970s and early 1980s, services in different countries began to exchange yearly messages in the form...
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Teletext Art
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- 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
- Calls For Entries
CALL FOR ENTRIES: HBN Text’s 1st Birthday (Deadline: 10 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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- Teletext Artist Spotlight
Group Exhibitions
By 2014, the tried and trusty Cebra Text editor used to facilitate teletext events was becoming incompatible with modern versions of Windows. In response,...
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Teletext has been popular at demoparties for over a decade, and with the invention of the BBC Micro introducing teletext software to the masses,...
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The RITE (Rolling In-vision Teletext Engine) Box was developed by Ray Goff, who had previously designed Context, the foundational system used to run and...
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Teletext Ltd superseded ORACLE at the end of 1992, taking charge of the services on Channels 3 and 4 at the very start of...
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Broadcast in 1990, Hands Up! was a series of educational TV programmes commissioned by Channel 4 made entirely with animated teletext graphics. It was...
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The Fantastic Adventures of 4-T followed the escapades of a cyan canine character that had its basis in a teletext dog Ian Irving had...
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Pre-teletext Teletext art has its ancestral origins in the mosaics and cross-stitching first documented in ancient times, as well as poetry using letter arrangements...
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A “test service” of Prestel was officially launched in 1978. This system was fundamentally different from teletext in that it was a form of...
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TeleNFT is a group of mostly Germany-based artists producing fully on-chain teletext art with the Tius teletext editor, aiming to make all their pieces...
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In 2016, ARD Text established their teletext residency series, beginning with Dan Farrimond in September and October of that year. Inspired by the service’s...
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As part of the Sequences “Real Time” Art Festival 2007, MOMS exhibited on page 444 of Icelandic service RUV Teletext. Known for going “unconventional...
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The first non-invitational “open call” teletext art exhibition was Microtel, broadcast on NOS Teletekst in the Netherlands from January to March 2006. It was...
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In 1980, the BBC began their Ceefax In Vision transmissions, later known as Ceefax AM and Pages From Ceefax. Due to the fact these...
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Warning: the links on this page may not be safe for work. By the turn of the millennium, teletext services across Europe were littered...
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With the 1981 launch of the BBC Micro computer providing a new and convenient method of coding and updating teletext pages, administration of the...
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During the 2000s, multimedia artists – particularly those from the online chiptune music community – began to experiment with and embrace the medium of...
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The International Teletext Art Festival (ITAF) was founded in 2012 by Finnish artists’ co-operative FixC, who primarily focus on moving image. Inspired by Lektrolab’s...