Fortunately Matti Rämö at YLE (Finnish television channel) liked the ideas we had and gave us a possibility to broadcast works and make the International Teletext Art Festival ITAF 2012 possible. On the other hand almost anything you do in Teletext looks good. The downside of the medium is that it is almost impossible to get Teletext Art broadcasted.
TELETEXT NET 5 PLUS
To make art with 24 lines with 39 characters each, and to be limited to six colours plus black and white can be challenging. Juha van Ingen: One of the best things about Teletext is that you can't really just convert your other art into Teletext.
Transmitting and displaying subtitles was relatively easy. What do you like most about working with Teletext? Teletext is a means of sending text and simple geometric shapes to a properly equipped television screen by use of one of the 'vertical blanking interval' lines that together form the dark band dividing pictures horizontally on the television screen. I started working with Teletext as late as 2011. Juha van Ingen: I have worked with various retro/low-tech formats including AMIGA 500, VHS, GIFs or HTML. The thought made us laugh at first but later on as we had a chance to use a Teletext editor in YLE-TV (the Finnish broadcasting corporation) we started to get really interested.Īre there any other retro-tech mediums that you like using? Juha van Ingen: We had a meeting with my colleagues from Helsinki and we were thinking of fun ways of expanding our artistic practises. We spoke to van Ingen, a member of the Finnish art network FixC Cooperative about how working with Teletext turned from a joke into something serious, or at least, something serious enough to warrant making Lindsay Lohan's mugshot into.ĭazed: What do you find interesting about Teletext and what persuaded you to use it as an artistic medium? Think of it as the older and less agile cousin of the internet: a place where information, news and games existed in an aesthetic that remains instantly recognisable – at least to people who used it regularly before the world went online. One Helsinski artist, Juha van Ingen, is helping to resurrect the dying medium for the International Teletext Art Festival in Berlin, featuring artists who have used the minimal aesthetics and limited possibilities of Teletext to create what resembles early net art.Ĭreated in the early 70s by British computer scientist John Adams, Teletext became a staple method of information retrieval for people all over the world. Who misses Teletext? The iconic information service left British television screens in 2012, but that hasn't diminished its popularity in other countries.
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