Beryl korot biography of williams

Beryl Korot describes the impetus behind the innovative 1970s publication Radical Software, elucidating the history of video in art and the impact of mass media on society. Emerging from an independent video community that included media visionaries such as Marshall McLuhan and groups such as Televisionaries, Videofreex, People’s Video Theater, and Global Village, the first issue of Radical Software debuted in Spring of 1970 as a publication by the Raindance Corporation.

Beryl Korot and Phyllis Segura (Gershuny) acted as Editors, while Michael Shamburg served as Publisher with Ira Schneider as co-Originator. Early contributors included Nam June Paik, Buckminster Fuller, Ant Farm, Frank Gillette, and Paul Ryan, among others. After eleven issues, Radical Software ceased publication in the Spring of 1974 and is now an invaluable time capsule of an era.

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Frank Gillette was the founding director of Raindance and produced several multi-channel works which draw parallels between technological, ecological and cognitive processes. He is the author of numerous published works including »Between Paradigms« (1973) and »Of Another Nature« (1988) and has been the recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations as well as grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endow­ment for the Arts. Before setting up the Raindance Corporation in 1969, Gillette taught courses in Post-World War II Painting and Marshall Mcluhan at the Free University of New York. Gillette now actively works in painting, drawing and photograph and ives and works in Manhattan and East Hampton, New York.

Beryl Korot is the Raindance member most consistently associated with the leadership of the magazine »Radical Software«. She first met Schneider whilst studying English Literature at the University of Wisconsin, an

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