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RADICAL SOFTWARE #1 (NY: Raindance Corporation, June 1970).
First edition. Ed. Beryl Korot & Phyllis Gershuny. Folio. Wrps., folded, as issued. 24pp. (incl. cover). Printed in blue ink, with computer-derived image to front cover. Illustrated.
The premiere issue of this video journal, featuring an editorial written by (publisher) Michael Shamberg, Beryl Korot and Phyllis Gershuny (who was introduced to video by John Hopkins in London), commenting on the relationship between power and control of information, and the importance of freeing television from corporate control (the journal's title referred to the content of information rather than to a computer programme).
Contents include an interview with Buckminster Fuller transcribed from a Raindance videotape (Earth Day, the evolution of civilisation, aspects of the space programme, the meaning of ecology); a creative editing of the answers to a questionnaire on video sent previously to a wide variety of interested groups and individuals (including Ant Farm, Jackie Cassen, E.A.T., Stan Vanderbeek, Global Village, Videofreex, and 26 others); an article on media ecology by Frank Gillette, who conceived the Raindance Corporation (an ironic reference to the Rand Corporation) in New York in 1969, where he had previously taught a seminar on Marshall McLuhan at the Free University; Paul Ryan, a former research fellow who had worked with McLuhan at Fordham in New York, on the communication possibilities of cable TV; two articles by Gene Youngblood, on "The Videosphere" and the Electronic Video Recorder (his book, 'Expanded Cinema', was published in the following month [item #66]); Nam June Paik's "Expanded Education for the Paperless Society" (2pp. of observations, quotes and news clips); Thea Sklover on the state of cable television in America; Robert Kragen on "Art and TV"; an interview with Frank Gillette and Ira Schneider by Jud Yalkut; "Simultaneous Video Statements" by Aldo Tambellini (filmmaker and associate of Up Against the Wall Motherfucker co-conspirator, Ben Morea); "Zen Tubes" by Marco Vassi (literary avatar of the sexual revolution); "Taping the Galaxy" by Alex Gross (IT's Berlin correspondent); more.
Cover age-toned, especially along spine; edges slightly worn with small split at head of spine; o/w Very Good.
