Teletext Art from Block Party Cambridge 2016

Block Party 2016 was held at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge on Saturday 1 October. It hosted a small self-service 'make your own teletext art' drop-in workshop alongside the cardboard cutout of Mr T in the foyer. This is a selection of the artwork created.

For more, see this Flickr photoset.

Republica Festival, 2-4 May 2016. Assorted teletext-centric clips.

In no particular order: Bears, teletext, music, teletext, Ed Snowden, teletext, old TVs and teletext. Alles ist gut!

Archived teletext services online

For the archivists out there, here's a list of (near enough) full, browsable teletext services from UK television past. Now to go back in time, glitches included...

Channel 3 ORACLE, 25 December 1981 captured by Jason Robertson
An Evening With Ceefax, 3 October 1983 by Mark Cook
Channel 4 ORACLE, 19 December 1987 captured by Jason Robertson
BBC1 Ceefax, 16 October 1987 captured by Jason Robertson
An Evening With PText, 2 August ???? transcribed by David Bennett
BBC1 Ceefax, 8 November 2009, archived at Ceefax.tv

Tate Britain Block Party // Videos

Pages From Tate Text: Workshop: Exhibition @ The Octagon:

Teletext Block Party // Tate Britain, 5 June 2015 // Misc. art

Here's some extra art produced for/at the Tate Britain Block Party on 5 June 2015 in London.

Teletext Block Party // Tate Britain, 5 June 2015 // Worksheet art PART 3

From paper to pixels... digitised (or should that be analogue-ised?) artwork from the Tate Britain Block Party, London, 5 June 2015.

See here to download worksheets and try for yourself!

Click for full size images.

Ah, but that's not the end quite yet! There's some extra art to come...

Teletext Block Party // Tate Britain, 5 June 2015 // Worksheet art PART 2

From paper to pixels... digitised (or should that be analogue-ised?) artwork from the Tate Britain Block Party, London, 5 June 2015.

See here to download worksheets and try for yourself!

Click for full size images.

Teletext Block Party // Tate Britain, 5 June 2015 // Worksheet art PART 1

From paper to pixels... digitised (or should that be analogue-ised?) artwork from the Tate Britain Block Party, London, 5 June 2015.

See here to download worksheets and try for yourself!

Click for full size images.

Late at Tate Block Party, 5 June 2015 - photos

Pics courtesty: Dan Farrimond, Carl Attrill, Angela Robinson, Eva Hautburg

Teletext worksheet

More of the traditional type that prefers drawing on paper? Then we have just the thing for you!

Click here to download the latest version of our teletext worksheet, complete with all the instructions you need to make your own paper-based teletext page.

When you're done, scan your worksheet and email it to us at hello [at] teletextart [dot] co [dot] uk. We can then find a place for your artwork on Teefax!

Teletext Block Party // Tate Britain, 5 June 2015 // T40 editor art PART 5

Artwork from the teletext art workshop held at #lateattate, Friday 5 June 2015. Open a page in the Teletext40 online editor by simply clicking on the desired image... and carry on editing, if you so wish! Send completed artwork to teletext40 [at] gmail [dot] com for inclusion on teletext40.com.