Maria Duncker is a Helsinki based artist who has recently been working with video, music and performance. Teletext as Fireplace is a homage to all mind-worming artificial fires. Her installations include found footage and staged video works, paintings and industrial materials such as mirror glass or neon.She examines the theme of uncanniness using various methods as making use of the relationship between words and the feelings they can evoke. He currently lives and works on the outskirts of Silicon Valley, California, planning super-villain style revenge on the world.Īspects of the uncanny dominate many of Cordula Ditz's work. Max Capacity suffers from a severe but well documented case of data-addiction, as well as a fetish for obsolete media and electronics. Works: Apezilla, City 3, Gun 1, Mountain, Skull 2
After drawing ASCII and ANSI art for over fifteen years, I've been turning myself to Teletext, a media offering a similar manner of expression, only with a more global and broadened audience. Growing up during the golden years of text terminals, PC's 80x25 text mode displays, Dot Matrix printers, and French Minitel (using Videotex display, closely related to Teletext), I naturally became a text mode artist. His motifs consists mostly of improvised miniature sceneries.įor as long as I can remember, I've been fascinated by type, fonts and printed materials.
He is also a well known artist within the ANSI art scene ().īYM has elaborated a pixel art style which takes inspiration from the act of painting and retro computer gaming. Works: Dive!, Visit Greece, Teletext love, Rick Perry said oopsĭuring Swedish royal wedding in the summer of 2010 BYM made his first teletext art broadcast of cross stich instructions based on news photos. The images I use were never intended to be realized as objects d'art, but I am doing just that. I transpose these digital relics into real objects through drawing, painting, and printmaking. Given the wide on-line availability of archived visuals and emulation programs which allow image capturing, the video games of my childhood have acquired a new graphical accessibility. My work springs from examining economies of representation in early video games through the prism of art theory, materials, process, and history.
Info on exhibition: ARD text website: FixC cooperative: More on works and artists: The International Teletext Art Festival is a FixC cooperative project made in collaboration with ARD Text. Participating artists: Ashley Anderson, Bym, Frederic Cambus, Max Capacity, Cordula Ditz, Maria Duncker, Dan Farrimond, Kathrin Günter, Francis Hunger, Juha van Ingen, Raquel Meyers, Dave Needham, Rich Oglesby, Seppo Renvall, Janne Suni, Jarkko Räsänen and Kari Yli-Annala Is the next big word in intellectual small talk of the hip, rich and famous going to be teletextualism? Time will show, but since it happens The International Teletext Art Festival gives the possibility to the ARD Text users to decide for themselves. The potential of Teletext as an tool for artistic expression has not yet been fully discovered though the aesthetics of Teletext have slowly creeped in to the most fashionable street ware, graffiti and fine art. Teletext being an amazing success story still attracts millions of visitors daily for the latest news headlines, weather reports or sports results.
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Technically it has remained almost unchanged until recently when TV became digital. Teletext, first invented some 30 years ago, utilizes the “vertical blanking interval” lines that together form the dark band dividing pictures horizontally on the television screen. Teletext is the future.” Artist Janne Suni May 2012
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