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1.06.2006
NEW MEDIAS:::::::::::LEKTROLAB
LEKTROLAB LIMITED : DE-MYSTIFYING CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
LEKTROLAB is a Media Art Company organized as a platform run by Emma Davidson and Paul B. Davis and based in London.
'We are successful in creating a progressive and non-critical learning environment and reverse negative gender stereotypes within our workshops often associated with electronic and audio arts.'
INFORMATION MESSAGE SENT BY rHIZOME.org :
> The Britain-based media arts collective, Lektrolab, is best known for> teaching how-to workshops on hacking Nintendo cartridges and manipulating> outmoded home electronics. So it's no surprise that their new project,> Microtel, also involves breathing life into dying living room technology--in> this case, the neglected aesthetic of teletext. The system was invented in> England, in the 1970s, to stream text and graphics to analog television sets.> Its vivid cathode colors and signature clunky graphics became the visual> language of up-to-the-minute news bulletins and awkward advertisements before> being replaced by newer text displays. Coming to the medium's rescue,> Lektrolab recently posted an open call for teletext art on their website.> They are compiling the submissions and, beginning January 26th, broadcasting> them on Netherlands public television in conjunction with Rotterdam's 35th> International Film Festival. The Microtel website has images of the> submissions that have co!> me in, thus far, and everything one needs to participate, including the> software to make a teletext masterpiece. - Bill Hanley
MIcROTEL : http://projects.lektrolab.com/microtel/
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