TELETEXT ART PRIZE

 

 

The Teletext Art Prize 2015

Winner Holger Lippmann

The Teletext Art Prize 2015 is awarded to German artist Holger Lippmann for his work Teletext Field (1-5), which combines an unusual strictness of form with strong and compelling visuality. It is a unique entry unlike any piece of teletext art the jury has encountered. Striking a delicate balance between machine generation and human input, it retains a controlled glitchiness that reminds you it is definitely teletext. The most painterly of the submissions, it is at the same time firmly rooted in the fields of minimal, electronic and computer art.

Teletext Achievement Award 2015, Max Capacity

Max Capacity’s work demonstrates how an artist who did not actually grow up with teletext can be creative beyond its constraints without ever having used the medium. The jury acknowledge the long term coherence of his teletext graphics, which are reminiscent of ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 art and draw major influences from the skateboard/street art scene.

The Jury’s Picks 2015: Karin Ferrari, Christina Kramer, Paula Lehtonen

Karin Ferrari’s Dark Text provides a visually innovative crossover between traditional and teletext aesthetics, drawing influences from psychedelic art as well as TV games, concrete poetry and advertising. Her work comes with a personal twist, where a desperate and humorous voice makes itself heard through the seemingly cold language of pixels, demonstrating how live energy can be channeled into a slowly dying medium.

Raquel Meyers

Christina Kramer, for her work Wenn jemand nach mir fragt: ich bin auf der Flucht/If anyone asks for me: I’m om the run. The title in simple white on a black background works poetically around concepts of escape, freedom and the very principles for our depiction of the third dimension by the invention of perspective. Two frames with lines and dots are placed before and after the text. The word ‘Fluchtlinien’ comes to mind, the lines that guide our eye when looking into a perspective drawing. ‘Fluchtpunkt’ is the point on or beyond the horizon, where the “Fluchtlinien’ converge. As the third dimension is absent just like the assumed protagonist of this short statement, the work elaborates an existential state of mind, where escape and absence are consistently evoked by the smallest possible means.

Pontus Kyander

Paula Lehtonen’s fluid narrative-without-words Escape makes full and effective use of its five allocated frames to create a colourful and entirely coherent storyboard. On a conceptual level, it successfully combines documentation of the creative process and general perception of teletext as a simpler, more ‘natural’ medium in a straightforward, accessible and above all engaging manner.

Dan Farrimond

 

The 2015 Teletext Art Prize jury members are:

 The 2015 Teletext Art Prize winner artist Dan Farrimond (GB):

Last years Teletext Art Prize winner Dan Farrimond  is a multimedia artist fascinated by retro technology and its associated aesthetics. 

www.illarterate.co.uk

Teletext Art Achievement Award 2014 winner artist Raquel Meyers (ES):

Raquel Meyers (b.Cartagena, 1977) is a  spanish artist based in Sweden. She  defines her practice as KYBDslöjd (drawing/crafting by typing).The grid is the framework and the characters are the instructions. KYBDslöjd is the joy of text-mode. A brutalist storytelling about technology.

www.raquelmeyers.com

Critic, curator and writer Pontus Kyander (SE).

Kyander has curated numerous international exhibitions in Scandinavia and around the world. His background includes two museum directorships, at SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum and Trondheim Kunstmuseum, a professorship at Ewha University in Seoul, South Korea, leading the renewal of public art in Auckland, New Zealand, and being editor-in-chief at two contemporary art programmes at Swedish Television, SVT Format and SVT Bildjournalen. Pontus Kyander has throughout his career had a particular interest in media works.

 

 

 

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Teletext Art Prize 2014:

The winner was Dan Farrimond
His visually dense, playful and equally humorous work is a highly intermedial reflection on teletext in the context of twentieth century media culture. The work demonstrates how much visually engaging content a teletext page can carry, which being also culturally rich and evocative.

Special Teletext Art Achievement Award to Raquel Meyers
The jury decided to reward Raquel Meyers for her highly elaborated and unique style of her own; her outstanding technical expertise and ability of storytelling through the teletext format. The jury acknowledged especially how teletext art plays an integral role of her overall artistic work including embroidery and old computer technologies.

Honorary mentions go to  Amanda Siegel , Kim Asendorf and Francis Hunger

The jury members were:

Artist Kathrin Günter  website
Media archaeologist Erkki Huhtamo website

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Teletext Art Prize 2013:

The winner was:
Kathrin Gûnter with her image series “Lindsay Lohan’s Mug Shot Cabinet”.

Honorary mentions:
Raquel Meyers, Daniel Egg and Dragan Espenschied:

The peoples choice winners were:
Dragan Espenschieds “Lucky Cat”, LIAs serie “Black and White” and John Lawrences serie “Connecting People”

The 2013 Jury members:
Paul B. Davis, Rosa Menkman and Voin de Voin

 

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Museum Of Teletext Art, MUTA

The Museum of Teletext Art MUTA

The Teletext Art Festival ITAF has been viewed by over 3 million people since it was started in 2012. In order to show the artworks beyond the festivals and to create a platform for showing teletext-art on a more regular basis, FixC cooperative launched in 2014 in collaboration with Yleisradio, Finnish Broadcasting Company, YLE, a museum of teletext-art MUTA. The purpose of MUTA is to broadcast teletext-art, document teletext-art, archive teletext-art in VILKE art collection and to make it available for studies and research. MUTA is broadcasted on YLE teletext page: 805.

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Museum of Teletext Art (MUTA) presents:

GO TO THE TV SET AND COME OVER TO THIS SIDE! 1979 First Excursions in Teletext in Norway.

27 February to 31 December 2026 (From page 805 -> YLE Teletext)

When teletext tests began at NRK (Norwegian Television) in 1979, teletext was an unknown medium to both researchers and artists.

Arild Boman, who was leading Media Culture university projects at the time, joined the tests together with other artists including Petter Brønn and Morten Juvet to explore the artistic possibilities of this new broadcast technology.

Thirteen of their works from 1979 have now been reconstructed for this teletext exhibition, offering a rare insight into the early history of teletext art and the first artistic explorations of the medium in Norway.

 

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MUTA projects archive:

MUTA SOLO

Is a ongoing series of solo exhibitions by artists working in Teletext.

The artworks are broadcasted on the Museum of Teletext Art, MUTA

MUTA SOLO: Raquel Meyers
28.6.2025-31.1.2026

Raquel Meyers (Cartagena, Spain b. 1977) works with obsolete technologies like the Commodore 64, Teletext, typewriters or fax machines mixed with photography, animation and embroidery, among other techniques. She defines her practice as KYBDslöjd [mecanografía expandida] whose significance can be defined roughly as <a manual skill with a keyboard>. It is based on and refers to the typewriter, Concrete Poetry, Demoscene and Brutalism. The keystrokes contribute to the execution, while poetry contributes to a system, through revealing the architecture of PETSCII, the raw and unadorned character set of Commodore 64.

Works:

2012 Do you go where I go?
2012 Mind the Volcano
2013 The Journey of the Sun
2014 Thread of Fate
2017 Glitch The Aesthetics of Failure
2017 Block party
2018 Blocktoberfest
2019 Inatenttion
2020 ARD TEXT
2024 Tehcnoroubble

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MUTA in 07-24

Works from VILKE collection of electronic art, MUTA MUseum of Teletext Art collection, and by FixC members in 07-24 exhibition at:

Poriginal Gallery, Pori,  21.9-8.10.2024.

The exhibition program includes the broadcasting of new artworks by Paula Lehtonen, Ryo Ikeshiro, Erkka Nissinen, Karin Ferrari, Max Haarich and Raquel Meyers in MUTA/YLE teletext (from page 805-). Starting 1st of July with Thoughts of Others by Paula Lehtonen.

Other participating artists: LIA, Jarkko Räsänen, Seppo Renvall, Kari Yli-Annala, ÜBERMORGEN, Kathrin Günter, Dragan Espenschied, Ian Gouldstone, Juha van Ingen, Max Capacity, Emilie Gervais, Bakketun & Norum, Karin Andersson, Dan Farrimond, Maria Lavman Vetö and Mad as Hell.

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Charity auction:

“The medium is the massage”

“The medium is the massage” is a 1/1 charity collaboration artwork by the 15 TeleNFT artists Bloom Jr., Buzz Lightning, Christoph Faulhaber, Claudie Linke, Gleb Divov, Jarkko Räsänen, Juha van Ingen, KleinTonno, Mamadou Sow, Max Haarich, Nissla, Numo, Quasimondo, sp4ce, and Tius.

The artwork merges all 15 original TeleNFT artworks into one infinite zapping loop. It pays homage to the media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s book title “The medium is the massage”, where a misspelling of “message” during layout lead to a wonderfully ambiguous wordplay with at least three relevant interpretations for TeleNFT: First of all, the colorfully blinking teletext aesthetics can be perceived as a massage to the human brain with no other purpose but to entertain your senses on a neural level. Secondly, the word could also refer to the mass age of communication, in which the reach of your messages increases but the attention for them decreases constantly. Finally, you could also hear the term “mess age” instead, as a critical comment on the various crises of our time addressed by the TeleNFT artists.

Just like the typing error in McLuhan’s title, also the TeleNFT artworks might appear like a fortunate accident in teletext unfolding new ways of perceiving the medium.

The TeleNFT artists were the first to bring crypto art into teletext and teletext art onto the blockchain. Starting from 11 January 22, all 15 collection pieces have been broadcasted on SAT.1 teletext pages 480 – 499 and were minted on Tezos and Arweave. Since June 2022, the collection has been advertised with the first ever German TV commercial for NFTs. All 15 TeleNFT pieces have been added to the permanent collection of MUTA, Museum of Teletext Art, as well as the Austrian Museum Francisco Carolinum, and have been exhibited in OÖ Landeskultur’s digital space.

80% of the proceeds from primary and secondary sales will be donated to the Tezos art initiative to help Ukraine. More info about this purely non-military support initiative for the arts sector can be found here: www.hencommunity.quest/blog/tezos-art-initiative-to-help-ukraine

 The start of the auction will be announced on Twitter via @TeleNFT

To the auction:  https://versum.xyz/token/versum/27336

 

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MUseum of Teletext Art, MUTA

collaborates with : TeleNFT

The medium is the massage. Fully on-chain teletext art minted on Arweave and broadcasted on SAT.1 teletext. + A charity auction of 1/1 full set of artworks to support Plant-For-The-Planet.

Artists: Bloom Jr, Buzzlightning,Christoph Faulhaber, Claudie Linke, Gleb Divov, Jarkko Räsänen, Juha van Ingen, KleinTonno, Mamadou Sow, Max Haarich, Nissla, Numo, Quasimondo, sp4ce, tius.

The art exhibition “TeleNFT” questions technological progress in the context of economic and environmental crises. How much time is left? Is technology the salvation? Is art the threat? Our 15 internationally renowned digital artists address these questions with innovative teletext artworks. With only 78×69 pixels, they present motifs ranging from hand-drawn animals to computer-generated patterns. These works immortalized on the blockchain document our zeitgeist, sometimes ironically resigned, sometimes uninhibitedly euphoric, but united in one conviction – now it’s up to us.

Max Haarich & Gleb Divov

More info: www.teletext.de

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MUTA7 

20.11.2021-6.1.2022

The Museum of Teletext art, MUTA has been broadcasting artworks for seven years non-stop!

To celebrate the occasion FixC cooperative/MUTA in collaboration with Yle presents MUTA7, an exhibition of teletext art. MUTA7 starts on the 20th November and runs until 6th January 2022. You can access the works from Yle text page 805.

Artworks from MUTA collection by Karin Ferrari, Jarkko Räsänen, Seppo Renvall, Dan Farrimond, Kari Yli-Annala, Erkka Nissinen, Paula Lehtonen,UBERMORGEN, Ryo Ikeshiro, Raquel Meyers, Kathrin Günter, Dragan Espenschied, Juha van Ingen, Max Capacity, Emilie Gervais and Maria Lavman Vetö.

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MUTA collaborates with

YLE Teletext in:

Teletext Art 2020, TART2020

25.2.-25.4.2020 in YLE Teletext from page 820 TART2020 is showcasing artworks from 11 international artists specifically created for the Teletext medium. The works of Nadine Arbeiter (Germany), Cordula Ditz (Germany), Daniel Egg (Austria), Dan Farrimond (Great Britain), Juha van Ingen (Finland), Kathrin Günter (Germany), Raquel Meyers (Spain), Matthias Moos (Switzerland), Niccolò Moronato (Italy), Jarkko Räsänen (Finland) and Seppo Renvall (Finland) show a wide variety of different approaches and implementations for teletext art.

The artworks of TART2020 have been first exhibited in the teletext exhibition “ORF TELETEXT meets art” resp. “ARD Text meets art”, a cooperation between ORF TELETEXT, ARD Text and the artists’ cooperative FixC, August 29th to September 19th 2019 in ORF TELETEXT and in ARD Text . The artworks have also been presented in Ars Electronica Festival Out of the Box – the Midlife Crisis of the Digital Revolution, Linz, 5.9.-9.9.2019.

> View works

The opening of TART2020 is on Tuesday 25th Feb. 18-19.30 at Bar Bronco Hämeentie 23 00500 Helsinki www.barbronco.fi WELCOME!

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MUTA in L’ unique

2 November – 17 December 2017 Works from MUTA Museum of Teletext Art collection are presented in L’ unique. L’ unique is an art center based in Caen in Normandy.  It produces various exhibition in the urban public space including a dissemination project of digital works in a shop window of the city. Participating artists: Ryo Ikeshiro Bakketun & Norum Jarkko Räsänen Juha van Ingen Kathrin Günter Dragan Espenschied Max Capacity Maria Lavman Vetö Ian Gouldstone Paula Lehtonen L’UNIQUE 4 rue Caponière 14000 CAEN www.lunique.info

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In 2016 The Museum of Teletext Art was hosted for one year in ARD text. ARD will broadcasted a monthly changing teletext-artwork on page 883. The first work broadcasted was  the iconic “Lucky Cat” by Dragan Espenchied!