A Christmas Carol, the Charles Dickens classic, re-made for Prestel by Dr David Annal, RIP. Check it here!
Tag Archives: videotex
Floridatex, a student work by Robertson Adams, 1980s. The first image was made with an AT&T Frame Creation Terminal 100. Unknown source. It is possible that this was never live, but part of the videotex experiments at the University of Florida. (see p.45)
Telidon/NAPLPS ads created for Bank of America (1982) by John Vaughan at The Communication Studio. More examples on his Youtube channel. In 2019 he posted more graphics and info on his blog.
Toxic Wastes from A to Z (coming after you and me) by John Fekner is a parody of a children’s alphabet learning aid which runs alphabetically through a list of toxic pollutants. Martin Nisenholtz invites John Fekner, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and others to experiment with an early interactive computer graphics system (Telidon) at New York University’s Alternate Media Center (Interactive Telecommunications Program). Fekner received his first international award at Toronto’s Video Culture Festival in the Videotex category.
Reabracadabra by Eduardo Kac, 1985. Visual poem made for the Brazilian videotex service Videotexto, which was based on Minitel. I wrote about this work for Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology.
A mobile phone version was made in 2003. Post updated in 2024.
Stills from Graphic Variations on Telidon by Pierre Moretti, 1979 or 1980. The Telidon System was a videotex service developed by the Canadian Communications Research Centre (CRC) during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Video here. Post updated in 2024.
An eerie ad for Prestel, which was a videotex service in the UK launched in 1979. A bit like interactive teletext.