Abstract

Installation
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t(R)opical
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words as
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net algorit
cartographe
H|U|M|B|O|T
cyberscript
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electronic
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of topics f
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audiences t
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choices and
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Alexander von Humboldt's travel route to the New Continent

1799 - 1804.
source : "Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial
Regions of the New Continent 1799 - 1804".
H|U|M|B|O|T's 1999 - 2000 zone of travel and digital
content clip production.

H|U|M|B|O|T 1999-2004 Remaps Humboldt's

famous South American Travels.
In honor of the 200th anniversary of Alexander von
Humboldt's landmark expedition to the New
Continent of South America in 1799 - 1804,
H|U|M|B|O|T revisits a very different South
America over a 5-year period, 1999 - 2004. It
slows new media down to remap without nostalgia
Humboldt's text in light of H|U|M|B|O|T's digital
content clips, produced from several forays in
South America, and therWhere on the New New
Continent of cyberspace. Eventually Humboldt's
passages will be buried by new digital content

Connectioni
Cosmos

"The more
travellers
into natura
history, ge
or politica
economy, th

production, and thus become its template, its

cyberscript.
H|U|M|B|O|T is cybercinema. It blurs boundaries,
geo-temporal and narrative ones, as well as the
more stubborn cinematic one between author and
audience. The classical cinema screen boundary
disappears and in its place H|U|M|B|O|T creates a
deep multi-dimensional one, allowing audiences to
cross-over and become co-editors in the
H|U|M|B|O|T cybercinema.
And like Humboldt's painful search for a narrative
form - it took him 35 years to write up what was a
5-year travel! - H|U|M|B|O|T connects things,
mapping, clustering autobiographical, documentary
as well as lyrical subjects and objects, according
to subjective (reader) and computative
(neural-net) measures, into a fascinating cosmos
for reading, browsing and experiencing for many
years to come.
H|U|M|B|O|T is a means rather than an end of
cinema, and like its growing body of digital media
content input, H|U|M|B|O|T's programming code
[Burckhardt, Noll, Wenz] and delivery modes and
aesthetic [Pocock, Stehle, Guppo A12, thers] also
make leaps and bounds over its cybercinematic
5-year run.
[Next: Nature of Narrative|Narrative of Nature...]

their journ
that unity
simplicity
composition
of the earl
travellers.
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impossible
so many dif
fields of r
in a narrat
that what w
call the dr
events give
descriptive
passages."

source: Ale
von Humbold
"Personal N
of a Journe
Equinoctial
of the New
Continent",