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.
In 2012, FixC put out an open call for the International Teletext Art Festival. The exhibition was broadcast on Yle Text in Finland in March and April 2012, then later screened on ARD Text, and at XL Art Space and the Pflueger68 gallery in Berlin during August and September 2012.
The first iteration of ITAF was influential, spreading awareness of the medium as an artform. Entrants included members of the FixC collective, as well as prominent demoscene artists such as Raquel Meyers, Janne Suni and Fredrik Olsson.
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.
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.
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!
Mr Yak professes that he, like the Terminator, will indeed be yak. A collaboration with Huge Bob.
The digital switchover trolls teletext regarding its continued obsolescence. But we shall prove him wrong, for teletext lives on and on! Keep teletext alive!
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.
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.
A retro Zenith remote gets kitted out for the International Teletext Art Festival 2012.
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.
Teletext encourages you to partake of the humorous fruit before it turns to mush.
The mysterious ‘Roberto’ is bamboozled by the thought of teletext and its hi-tech “stuff”.