Radical Software (1970-1974)

10 June 2009, dusan

The historic video magazine Radical Software was started by Beryl Korot, Phyllis Gershuny, and Ira Schneider and first appeared in Spring of 1970, soon after low-cost portable video equipment became available to artists and other potential videomakers. Though scholarly works on video art history often refer to Radical Software, there are few places where scholars can review its contents. Individual copies are rare, and few complete collections exist.

Radical Software was an important voice of the American video community in the early 70s; the only periodical devoted exclusively to independent video and video art at the time when those subjects were still being invented. Issues included contributions by Nam June Paik, Douglas Davis, Paul Ryan, Frank Gillette, Beryl Korot, Charles Bensinger, Ira Schneider, Ann Tyng, R. Buckminster Fuller, Gregory Bateson, Gene Youngblood, Parry Teasdale, Ant Farm, and many others.

Eleven issues of Radical Software were published from 1970 to 1974, first by the Raindance Corporation and then by the Raindance Foundation with Gordon and Breach Publishers.


Radical Software, Volume I, Number 1
The Alternate Television Movement,
Spring 1970
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Radical Software, Volume I, Number 2
The Electromagnetic Spectrum,
Autumn 1970
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Radical Software, Volume I, Number 3
Untitled, Spring 1971
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Radical Software, Volume I, Number 4
Untitled, Summer 1971
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Radical Software, Volume I, Number 5
Realistic Hope Foundation,
Spring 1972
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Radical Software, Volume II, Number 1
Changing Channels, Winter 1972
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Radical Software, Volume II, Number 2
The TV Environment, Spring 1973
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Radical Software, Volume II, Number 3
Videocity, Summer 1973
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Radical Software, Volume II, Number 4
Solid State, Autumn 1973
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Radical Software, Volume II, Number 5
Video and Environment, Winter 1973
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Radical Software, Volume II, Number 6
Video and Kids, Summer 1974
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