Fiery Super Mario
A portrait of Super Mario, created but unused for the inaugural International Teletext Art Festival. inspired by Paul B Davis of Lektrolab and others from the VBI Microtel project who chose to depict the character.
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Mort Smith Playing Pong
A still from the BBC’s 1975 ‘This is Ceefax’ documentary depicting Mort Smith editing a Ceefax page – except here, he’s slacking off by playing Pong on his visual display unit.
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Bcbkye the Clown
Bcbkye the Clown is not a friendly clown. He knows all your secrets… mainly that you are alive! And you have used at least three toilets in your lifetime!
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I’ll Be Yak
Mr Yak professes that he, like the Terminator, will indeed be yak. A collaboration with Huge Bob.
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Rob Hubbard Ain’t No Stinkin’ Sound Monkey
Video games music legend Rob Hubbard proclaims that he ain’t no stinkin’ sound monkey!
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Windows TTX Error
Who knew that teletext was powered by Windows 98 all along? It was inevitable that an error would occur sooner or later. Just restart the system and everything will be fine.
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Teletext Isn’t Dead, it is Just Sleeping
Slogan to remind you that teletext will rise again… in fact, it is rising.
A print of this artwork was displayed at the ARD Text offices in Potsdam alongside pieces from other International Teletext Art Festivals.
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ITAF12 Remote Control
A retro Zenith remote gets kitted out for the International Teletext Art Festival 2012.
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Grave Stone (At Least I Don’t Have to go to Work)
Mr Slacker finds humour in any situation, even after he’s gone, turning this part of the graveyard into his own stand-up (lie-down?) comedy show.
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Have a Banana
Teletext encourages you to partake of the humorous fruit before it turns to mush.
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Roberto is not aware of this fancy new teletext stuff
The mysterious ‘Roberto’ is bamboozled by the thought of teletext and its hi-tech “stuff”.