Teletext Art
テレテキスト・アート / 1974–2012 / revival / Style / Text-based Imagery
Screen art drawn in broadcast text mode — a 40x24 mosaic of eight fixed colors. The extreme abstraction of Ceefax weather maps and news pages is being revived as a classic of constraint aesthetics.
Eight-color mosaic / The 40x24 frame / Pseudo-curves from blocks / The look of broadcast infrastructure
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- BBC Ceefax pages / the International Teletext Art Festival / contemporary artists like Dan Farrimond