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Matti Ramo has been a journalist with Finland’s YLE Text for 19 years. Not only has he written and formatted thousands of articles and...
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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
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)
Valentine’s Day / Day of Friends Exhibition on Yle Teletext (14th-28th February 2026)
Advent Calendars return to Yle Text for 2025 (1 December 2025 – 6 January 2026)
World Events, TeleNFT (September-October 2025)
- 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
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...
Teletextr Podcast
Much like a washed-up 80s rock star who’s run out of cash to pay his TV license, the Teletextr Podcast has returned for a...
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...
Archives
Prepare to be Bamboozled, dear reader! Yes, it’s one of those clickbait lists we love like a wayward child who eats buttons off the...
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...
Interviews
This informal chat with text-mode.org founder Anders Carlsson was originally posted at the Illarterate Blog on 21 March 2014. With the Finland leg of...
News
A proposal to add teletext graphics characters to the Universal Coded Character Set has been accepted by the Unicode Consortium. A total of 214...
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...
Calls For Entries
In November 2026, the exclusively-online service HBN will celebrate its first anniversary with a mini-festival of teletext art. Community member SoyuzRocket AKA Adam Hanate...
Calls For Entries
Yle Text, those ever-present legends of the modern teletext art scene, have once again agreed to host our teletext art over the festive period!...
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