Teletext festival breathes life into old tech Published duration 7 July 2014

image copyright International Teletext Art Festival image caption Sugar by Juha van Ingen

Teletext is not quite dead yet thanks to Berlin's International Teletext Art Festival

image copyright International Teletext Art Festival image caption 1914 The Teletext Engine by Dan Farrimond

The annual event showcases the work of artists who have repurposed the medium to create striking images.

image copyright International Teletext Art Festival image caption 9999 percent by Kari Yli Annala

Some of the images include lucky fortune cats, Mozart and The A-Team's Mr-T.

image copyright International Teletext Art Festival image caption From the series Internet Acronyms by Anne Horel

Teletext, a British invention from the 1970s phased out in the UK in 2012, is a television information retrieval service.

image copyright International Teletext Art Festival image caption Spectrum balls by Kim Asendorf

Despite teletext's limitations, artists from across the world have pushed the ageing tech to its limit to create an impressive collection of retro illustrations.

image copyright International Teletext Art Festival image caption Thread of Fate by Raquel Meyers

The festival, in its third year, will be run by Finnish art collective FixC , from 14 August to 14 September 2014.

image copyright International Teletext Art Festival image caption Untitled by LIA

After the BBC announced it would no longer broadcast Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, many users took to the web to wish the service a fond farewell.

image copyright International Teletext Art Festival image caption Two is better than one by Nadine Arbeiter