Radical Software – Number 3, Spring 1971

Periodical. Folio. 26pp. Quarter-fold newsprint in blue ink. Small stamps on front wrap, light toning on rear cover, small nicks and tears at edges, very good. A journal started by Beryl Korot, Phyllis Gershuny, and Ira Schneider in 1970 (soon after low-cost portable video equipment became available) "as a service to alternate television people". The journal ran for 11 issues and dealt with videos and other technologies as a tool for social change and making people familiar with the technologies that are controlling their lives. Articles include "Cybernetic Guerilla Warfare," "Alternatives for Alternate Media II," "Tentative Design for a Flexible Video Environment," "Design for a Human Porta-Pak," "Videotape Versus Film," "This Cassette Thing," "Dial Access Information Retrieval Systems," "Citizen Sampling Simulations: A Method for Involving the Public in Social Planning," and more. Also includes a videotape distribution and exchange plan which they hope to be the genesis of an alternate television network. One of the only periodicals devoted to video in the early 70s.