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Best, Inke ---------------------------- Von: International Teletext Art Festival <[email protected]> Datum: 13. August 2012 13:49:09 MESZ Betreff: International Teletext Art Festival in ARD Text starts The International Teletext Art Festival ITAF 16.8.-16.9.2012 in ARD TEXT page > 770 + An exhibition in Pflüger68 opening 16.8. 19.00 -> (including Chip Tunes played by Jarkko Räsänen, FixC cooperative) Pflügerstrasse 68 12047 Berlin-Neuköln “The road begins from here. Teletext is the future.” Artist Janne Suni May 2012 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. Technically it has remained almost unchanged until recently when TV became digital. Teletext being an amazing success story still attracts millions of visitors daily for the latest news headlines, weather reports or sports results. Hust ARD text alone has 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. Is the next big word in intellectual small talk of the hip, rich and famous going to be teletextualism? Time will show. Since it happens The International Teletext Art Festival gives the possibility to the ARD Text users to view some of the latest works on the Teletext scene and decide for them selves. 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 The International Teletext Art Festival is a FixC cooperative project made in collaboration with ARD Text. f4 More info on the artists and works: www.fixc.fi/itaf More info on the exhibition: www.pflueger68.de/itaf.html The ARD-Text: www.ard-text.de ************************************* FixC cooperative PL39 FI-00921 Helsinki www.fixc.fi ------------------ Dr. Inke Arns Artistic Director Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) at the Dortmunder U Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse, 44137 Dortmund Office: Hoher Wall 15, 44137 Dortmund, Germany T + 49 - 231 - 496642-0 (direct line -11) F + 49 - 231 - 496642-29 M + 49 - 176 - 430 627 93 [email protected] www.hmkv.de www.inkearns.de SOUNDS LIKE SILENCE John Cage / 4'33'' / Silence today 1912 / 1952 / 2012 HMKV at the Dortmunder U, Aug 25, 2012 - Jan 6, 2013 Opening: Friday, Aug 24, 2012, 7 pm ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
