Today sees the launch of the International Teletext Art Festival 2013, a Europe-wide event celebrating that forgotten medium of artistic expression, Videotext. Or, if you live in the UK, that method of watching the cricket in text format while making your lunchtime beans on toast. Don’t tell me you’ve never done it!
Naturally, your (least) favourite teletext artist has submitted a handful of entries, example above. I don’t think they necessarily represent the best of my work and are a tad Brit-centric, but what did you expect? That said, I reneged on my promise that I ‘wouldn’t include text’ because I found it nigh on impossible. After all, it’s supposed to be tele-text, isn’t it?
Enough for now. When my beans have worked their way through my system I should have time to do a brief walkthrough of my poopy entries a la last year, so watch out for that.
- View my submissions on ORF Text (15 Aug-15 Sep 2013, navigate to pages 491 and 492).
- See that criminally underused Teletext Art Tumblr blog I should spend more time on.
