From: Daniel R. Duncan <dunc@well.sf.ca.us>
Newsgroups: ba.announce
Subject: Human Be-In Announcement
Date: 6 Jan 1993 12:12:33 -0500
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      The Fifth Annual Digital Art Be-In
    during MacWorld Expo in San Francisco: 

produced by Verbum Magazine and Bill Graham Presents

        Friday, January 8, 1993   
           7:00 pm to 3:00 am


Fashion Center Grand Atrium Theatre and Exhibit Hall, 
           699 Eighth Street, 
             San Francisco. 


Tickets are $20.00 in advance, available at all BASS Ticket centers, 
and at the Verbum Booth #3561, MacWorld Expo at Moscone Center. 
Call Verbum at 415-995-4668, 619-944-9977, or BGP 415-541-0800 
for more information.


WHAT IS IT?

A celebration of digital technology and 21st century aesthetics. 
Live music/multimedia performances, dancing, the Digital Frontier 
of cutting edge cyberart, product exhibits, smart food and drink 
and much more! 


VORTEX		Debut Performance by Bob Bralove (on stage MIDI wizard 
		for the Grateful Dead), Henry Kaiser, Bobby Strickland,
 		Benny Rietveld, Paul Van Wageningen with interactive 
 		video and quad sound


WORLD ENTERTAINMENT WAR
		Performance art tribal metal folk band

FORCE ONE NETWORK
		Multimedia politics on the R&B tip 

TIMOTHY LEARY
		Live Trance-Formation with Psychic TV 
		and Hyperdelic Video

VINCENT JOHN VINCENT
		Is it Artificial or Virtual Reality?

GALEN BRANDT & TRYBER
		Prototypical cyberband
		Where MIDI meets EMG 

THECLA SCHIPHORST
		Interactive dance performance

DR. FIORELLA TERENZI
		Music from the galaxies



BACKGROUND ON THE BE-IN

The Digital Art Be-In grew out of the early Verbum events hotel 
suite parties for those involved and featured in the magazine, and 
the Imagine exhibits of digital art held in Boston, Tokyo and 
other cities.

The Be-In brings together the Verbum digital design community with 
the Bay Area-centered counter culture of musicians, writers, painters, 
programmers, entrepreneurs and thoughtful seekers who participated in 
(or resonate with) the original Human Be-In held on January 14, 1967 
in Golden Gate park.

The first Digital Art Be-In was on January 21, 1989 at American Zephyr 
Studios in downtown San Francisco. Sponsored by prominent software 
and hardware vendors, the event brought artists, and hackers, together 
with industry movers and shakers in a celebration of the new 
electronic art and design world.  A variety of impromptu exhibits 
and performances marked the evening. 

On April 12, 1990, the Second Annual Be-in at the same venue, had 
twice the attendees and even more impressive multimedia and 
music/graphics performances. 

In 1991, the Third Be-In was held at the San Francisco Fine Art Center 
on Saturday, January 12, 1991. With about 1800 attendees, the 
event featured the innovative music of D'Cuckoo, other performances, 
and a broader array of exhibits and art installations. 

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.
This had been the seminal 1960s event that brought the Haight-Ashbury 
hippies and the Berkeley radicals together in a spontaneous happening 
of 50,000 people in Golden Gate Park where the Dead played, Allen 
Ginsberg read and Timothy Leary has said Tune In, Turn On and Drop Out.  

For the first time open to the public with tickets on sale, the 
New Human Be-In, turned on close to  3000 people with multimedia 
and virtual reality, tuned in to Worlds Collide, Todd Rundgren, 
Brenda Laurel, Howard Rheingold, Tim Leary, Graham Nash, John Barlow 
and The Step Children, and dropped out of centralized, stagnant, 
analog media!


ABOUT VERBUM

Verbum magazine, the Journal of Digital Art and Multimedia, has been 
serving the digital design and multimedia fields since 1986 as an 
information source, a forum of ideas and a showcase for creative work.

For information on Verbum magazine, Verbum Interactive CD-ROM 
and other publications, please write us: Verbum, P.O. Box 12564, 
San Diego, CA 92112, call 619/944-9977, or fax 9995. 

(Indicate "Be-In list" if you want to be on the mailing list 
for information on future Be-Ins.)