SEND - VIDEO & COMMUNICATION ART. Issue Number 9, Spring 1984. Published by SEND - Video & Communication Art, SAN FRANCISCO, 1984.

SEND was a short-lived, really cool, video art magazine. The articles in this issue sound like they could have been forecasting the world as we know it today!

Softcover Magazine, side stapled, 8x11 inches, 60 pages. Illustrated throughout with b&w photographs and drawings.

NEAR FINE condition: tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

Articles include:

THE PHOSPHOTRON, by STEVEN BECK [aka Stephen Beck]. "This is one idea you can't get out of your head. Inventor Beck discusses the ultimate video image, implanted directly in your brain." (Hello, Elon Musk.) There's a great photo online of Steven Beck wearing a phosphotron mask back in the late 70s early 80s. Scarily like the AR masks of today.

SCIENCE FICTION and ARBITRARY REALITY, by JERRY MANDER. "[Mander] draws dismal realities to the real world."

LIFE SURVEILLANCE by STEVE SEID. "The horror unseen: a big-bucks cartel that's got you in the camera's eye. Just a fiction...with fact growing in its likeness." (That "fact" has now grown into Google, Facebook, Apple, et al.)

SPECIAL ARTIST'S PORTFOLIO. "Five artists' visual tribute to Orwell's year [1984]." Five artists contribute single and double page artworks. The artists are: PETER D'AGOSTINO, CHIP LORD, DARA BIRNBAUM, JUAN DOWNEY, and JULIAN B. "JULES" BACKUS.

A REVIEW of LES LEVINE'S film EINSTEIN: A NUCLEAR COMEDY.

About STEVEN BECK (from Wikipedia)

******Stephen Beck [aka Steven Beck] is an American artist, writer and inventor who pioneered video synthesis and interactive video art. Examples of his work have appeared in collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He holds several patents in phosphene based video display technology and energy management.******

About JERRY MANDER (from Wikipedia):

******Jerry Irwin Mander, b.1936 d.2023, was an American activist and author in San Francisco, known for his use of advertising for progressive and ecological causes and for his 1978 book FOUR ARGUMENTS FOR THE ELIMINATION OF TELEVISION.******

About STEVE SEID (from a Pacific Film Archive website):

******Steve Seid was a media curator at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive for twenty-five years. During that time, he presented almost a thousand public programs, featuring experimental media, forgotten film genres, and a sampling of international cinema. He helped build the PFA's collection, particularly video art from the Bay Area.******

About PETER D'AGOSTINO - one of the artists in this issue (from Wikipedia):

******PETER D'AGOSTINO is an artist and a professor of Film and Media Arts, Temple University. His photography, video and new media projects have been exhibited internationally in the form of installations, performances, telecom events, and broadcast productions.******

About LES LEVINE (from Wikipedia):

******Les Levine, 1935, is a naturalized American Irish artist known as a pioneer of video art and as a conceptual artist working with mass communication. In 1965, Levine and Nam June Paik were among the first artists to buy and use portapaks, pioneering the use of television as a medium for the dissemination of art.******