Announcements
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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- 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
- Editorial
- Teletext Artist Spotlight
Knowledge base
Many artists, academics and commentators have contextualised teletext art in their own way, addressing commonly-cited criticisms regarding the medium’s later life. Raquel Meyers, in...
Group Exhibitions
By 2014, the tried and trusted Cebra Text editor long used to facilitate teletext events was becoming incompatible with modern versions of Windows. In...
Knowledge base
Teletext has been popular at demoparties for over a decade, and with the invention of the BBC Micro introducing teletext software to the masses,...
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...
Knowledge base
Broadcast in 1990, Hands Up! was a series of educational TV programmes commissioned by Channel 4 made entirely with animated teletext graphics. It was...
Knowledge base
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...
Museum of Teletext Art
TART2020 (Teletext Art 2020) has begun broadcasting on Finland’s Yle Text service. Presented by FixC and the Museum of Teletext Art, the festival will...
Group Exhibitions
25.2.-25.4.2020 In YLE Teletext from page 820 (Note: there was a typo in the original press release – this show runs for two months...
News
For one night only, teletext has made a triumphant return to the BBC. Wednesday’s edition of The One Show featured a segment on Ceefax...
Announcements
The artwork of Steve Horsley and Dan Farrimond features in a new article examining how the Internet facilitates teletext as an artistic genre. Written...
Museum of Teletext Art
The Museum of Teletext Art will turn 5 years old this summer. Since its launch in August 2014, the teletext-based gallery has broadcast artwork...
Archives
If the Internet invented clickbait, then ClubCall and its competitors were the masters of phonebait. With increasingly juicy teletext headlines, they lured many a...
Archives
Life in the 80s and 90s was hard. If you wanted to know something you’d have to put on clothes and walk to a...
Archives
It’s exactly nine years since Teletext Ltd hosted its last full news edition of analogue teletext. On 14 December 2009, the ‘world’s largest TV...
Interviews
Tonight on Teletext Artist Spotlight we’ll be highlighting the work of Little Cat, who has recently discovered the vibrant world of teletext art and...
News
Update 4/12/18 – ARD Text have now distributed their entire print run of these postcards! We’ll let you know if and when more become...
Interviews
Teletextart: Hi Kathrin. Thank you so much for agreeing to answer a few questions for us! I believe your piece ‘Lindsay Lohan’s Mug Shot...