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04.07.03 Radical Software, the first electronic art magazine has been digitized.
Among the countless cultural stimuli that crossed the Sixties and the Seventies, there were many of them that tried to build visionary perspectives of media and of an art centered on them. The first printed magazine which tried to put together these themes and the printed medium was Radical Software, which, even if just for a few numbers (eleven, between 1970 and 1974), casted a new light on sceneries yet to be considered. The essays and the works reviewed in those pages investigated the first paradoxes that manifested themselves in the context of the rise of the not-yet-personal computer. All the issues have been digitized in PDF format and made available on a dedicated site, complete with search engine and database. This work was coordinated by Ira Schneider (who was among the founders of the magazine) and Davidson Gigliotti, who presented it at the Transmediale festival in 2002. A very important process which should be encouraged and repeated: the preservation of important historical documents about media art, often underestimated in the endless search for the 'new'.