Of all the artists participating in this year’s International Teletext Art Festival, Emilie Gervais’s “Take Care of Your Pixels!” series is the most sly in how it works within the strict medium thematic.
The limitations of Teletext — six colours, a pixel grid canvas of 24 rows and 40 columns, and animation solely of the blink-effect kind — forces Gervais to isolate the tropes of found gendered information behaviors she typically layers into frantic, web 1.0 surf club confusion. (A good example of this is PΛЯΚΣD DӨMΛIП GIЯᄂƬӨMBƧƬӨПΣ, one of her current #internetghetto web-based projects.)
