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RADICAL SOFTWARE #3 (NY: Raindance Corporation, Spring 1971).
Ed. Beryl Korot & Michael Shamberg. Folio. Wrps., folded, as issued. 28pp. (incl. cover). Printed in blue ink, with cover art by Andy Poynor. Illustrated. The third issue, with its main theme of grassroots television.
Contents include contributions from Gregory Bateson ("Restructuring the Ecology of a Great City", 2pp.); Paul Ryan on the need for an information economy, and "Cybernetic Guerrilla Warfare", an article that inspired Michael Shamberg, one of the founders of the video collective Raindance Corporation and originator of the term 'Guerrilla Television'; the Videofreex "Media Bus"; "Sound Structures" by Liz Phillips; "Tentative Design for a Flexible Video Environment" by Ira Schneider; "Videotape versus Film" by Louis Jaffe; an excerpt from 'Expanded Cinema' by Gene Youngblood; "Aspects of Data" by Frank Gillette; "Dial Access Information Retrieval Systems" by Van Ftergiotis; "Media Ecology" by Raymond Arlo; an "Information Exchange" and "Cultural Data Bank" featuring listings of video work by Ant Farm, Global Village, Intermedia, Media Access Center, People's Video Theatre, Raindance, The Ultimate Mirror, and Videofreex; "How To Build A Porta-Pak Support System"; and "Other Networks to Plug Into" (Ant Farm, the Whole Earth Catalog, Domebooks, The Mother Earth News, etc).
Cover, esp. back cover, age-toned; one page edge-darkened; o/w Very Good plus.
