January 06, 2006
Microtel
Send Your Teletext Now
Microtel is one of the projects curated by ambientTV.net as part of VBI [voluptuous blinking eye] - a submission for the exhibition Satellite of Love. This exhibition is presented by the 35th International Film Festival Rotterdam in association with Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art and the TENT Centre for Visual Arts. The exhibition runs from 26 January to 05 February 2006.
Until 04 February 2006, you will be able to create teletext and email it to Microtel for inclusion on its website, a DVD to be distributed by SCEEN magazine and most importantly broadcast on Netherlands TV station NOS. Check technical information for software downloads and FAQ's to contribute today! From 26 January to 05 February 2006, you will be able to visit the VBI Lounge and learn how to create teletext content. Check workshops for the schedule and see what other activities will be taking place in the VBI Lounge.
About Teletext: Teletext is a system which encodes extra information in analogue TV signals, where televisions with the right chip can decode and display special text and graphic pages. It uses the VBI part of the television broadcast signal. VBI stands for the Vertical Blanking Interval - the portion of the broadcast TV signal occupied by teletext and other data streams. The number of viewers to a page of teletext does not slow down the teletext system - unlike people visiting a webpage on the internet. Teletext originated in the UK in the 1970's. Today teletext services still offer a range of text-based information, usually including national, international and sporting news, weather and TV schedules.
Dragan Espenscheid from Bodenstandig 2000 created a piece called Teletext Babez featuring a collection of racy teletext advertisements for lonely hearts phone lines. jodi.org used teletext for Teletext.
Posted by jo at January 6, 2006 03:09 PM
