Radical Software was an early journal on the use of video as an artistic and political medium, started in 1970 in New York City.
And it was a call to encourage a grassroots involvement in creating an information environment exclusive of broadcast and corporate media.
It became immediately important and popular as it grasped fully what a lot of people had been concerned with and thinking about; giving its introduction a synchronicity of the ideas of the day.
[3] Its editing was ultimately taken over by its original publisher, Raindance Corporation,[4] a loosely formed group of like-minded videographers: some with a philosophical bent, painters, and an aspiring Hollywood producer.
There was a split at that time in the editorial direction and the original vision was altered to comply with that, causing a fissure and Gershuny's untimely departure.