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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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#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
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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)
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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
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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
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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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All posts tagged "Ian Irving"
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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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Styles Despite its restrictions, teletext is capable of facilitating a variety of styles. It may carry a certain aesthetic, but as a medium it...
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It has been exactly fifty years since the world’s first teletext service, Ceefax, launched in September 1974. As part of the birthday festivities, Finnish...
Artists
Biography Joined Ceefax at its beginning in 1974 as news and general sub-editor, gradually developing the graphics side of things. Eventually became full time...
Interviews
If you’ve ever seen a teletext animation, there’s a very good chance Ian Irving had something to do with it. Arguably the world’s first...
Interviews
If you’ve ever seen a teletext animation, there’s a very good chance Ian Irving had something to do with it. Arguably the world’s first...