Videotext Vixens – German chatline teletext art in 2015 (18+)
I wasn’t brave enough to add this to my portfolio, mostly because I created none of the pages exhibited… although I dearly wish I did.…
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Videotext Forever – 35 Years of ARD Text
Today, 1st June 2015, marks the 35th anniversary of German teletext service ARD Text. To celebrate its role in the survival of teletext as an…
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Error Map of the UK
The most important parts of the United Kingdom mapped out in HTML. Best viewed via the images here, since the original web page only works…
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What are you staring at, chump?
Some early experiments with teletext art from late 2007 and early 2008, inspired by the VBI Microtel project.
Editing software is Cebra, which is what we all used for teletext art before the plethora of freely-available editors made available post-2014. It has a distinctive typeface (Courier?) that makes it easy to identify from screenshots alone.
I believe the raw teletext files are “lost media”, but these delightfully crunchy .gif images have survived the harshness of time. On the whole, they are edited image imports – Cebra is particularly good for this type of appropriation art.
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