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Periodical. Cover designed by Ant Farm. Folio. 79pp. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Institutional stamps and inked notations on front wrap, small tear on rear cover and last two leaves, tears on the spine, 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 "Tape Exchange and Process Print-out," "Notes on Biotopology 1972," "The Nutritive Context," "Revolutionary Engineering: Towards a Counter-Technology Videotape Dance Therapy," "Video Handbook," "Westbeth: Plugging into the Master Antenna," "Sony Modifications," and more. Also contains proposals, essays, and reports from Canadian and California-based video and alternate media groups. One of the only periodicals devoted to video in the early 70s. Seller Inventory # 607595
Title: Radical Software Number 4, Summer 1971
Publisher: Raindance, New York
Publication Date: 1971
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition