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I owe much to the International Teletext Art Festival – it inspired me to return to creating teletext pages again at the start of 2012. When Samuel López-Lago invited me to write about my work for online magazine Grafismo, I took the opportunity to pay tribute to this significant event in the history of the teletext art movement.
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.…
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 artistic medium, here are a handful of pages remembering other events and technologies from the space year 1980.
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 properly in Internet Explorer.
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.