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In 1992, the 4th Annual Digital Art Be-In converged -- on the precise day of January 14 -- with the 25th Anniversary of the original Human Be-In (the seminal 1960s event that brought the Haight Ashbury hippies and the Berkeley radicals together in a spontaneous happening of 30,000 people in Golden Gate Park where the Dead played, Allen Ginsberg read and Timothy Leary first said "Tune In, Turn On and Drop Out"). The "New Human Be-In," open to the public with, for the first time, tickets on sale drew almost 3000 people turning on to multimedia and virtual reality, tuning in to Worlds Collide, Todd Rundgren, Brenda Laurel, Howard Rheingold, Tim Leary, Graham Nash, John Barlow and The Step Children, and dropping out of centralized, linear, analog media! |