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Angine de la Vitrine, Cheap Thrills Montreal (17 October 2026 – 10 January 2027)

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...

3 days ago

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Hands Up! (1990)

Broadcast in 1990, Hands Up! was a series of educational TV programmes commissioned by Channel 4 made entirely with animated teletext graphics. It was...

5 days ago

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The Fantastic Adventures of 4-T (1980-1990)

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...

5 days ago

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Viewer-submitted teletext art – Gallery and Frame-It

Gallery (4-Tel) To encourage audience participation, Channel 4’s 4-Tel service instituted Gallery, featuring viewers’ hand-drawn art. The service would send out a pack of...

6 days ago

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Turner the Worm, Teletext Ltd. (1993-2009)

Turner the Worm was a fondly-remembered cartoon strip that ran on Teletext‘s Kids section from 1992 until the service’s final day in 2009. In...

7 days ago

Group Exhibitions

30 Jahre Videotext (30 Years of Teletext) contest, ARD Text (2010)

In August 2010, German service ARD Text organised a teletext art competition to celebrate their 30th birthday, entitled 30 Jahre Videotext. The winner, filmmaker...

7 days ago

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Christmas Cards

As the medium spread worldwide in the late 1970s and early 1980s, services in different countries began to exchange yearly messages in the form...

October 13, 2026

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ARD Text Residencies (2016-2020)

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...

October 11, 2026
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