[Left]: H|U|M|B|O|T

Emotion Map:

Abstract
Installation
h|u|m|b|o|t

H|U|M|B|O|T plays @ a
Cinema not Near You but In
You.
H|U|M|B|O|T re-evaluates
traditional cinema aesthetics
within the domain of digital
information and telecommunication
networks as the next content and
context for a future cinema.
H|U|M|B|O|T re-balances linear,
closed, and passive media
consumption, in favor of multior non-linear, open-ended and
interactive media consumption and
production by authors and
audience alike. After all,
cinema's classical aesthetics,
subjecting audiences to a dark
seated silence with the
aspiration of transcending and
entering a movie, when it works,
is marvellous, and audiences
gladly sit down, pipe down and
submit to an author, as in
authority, for the experience.
Yet other forms of future cinema

With North being

sensual, South
cerebral, East being
loving and West
fearful, Humboldt
readers and
H|U|M|B|O|T authors
and readers have
clicked a position
on this emotion map
for every single
piece of content
incorporated on the
site - Humboldt
passages and
H|U|M|B|O|T D-Video
clips, before being
calculated with
other parameters time, position
(GPS), situation,
keyword and category
into the expanding
H|U|M|B|O|T database
computed by the
artificially (and
poetically)
intelligent
neural-net Kohonen
Self-Organizing
Mapping algorithm,
producing not pages
but one 'world'
screen, a cyberatlas
for a cybercinema
driven by user
interaction.
Ground and the
Grounds You Stand On
"...perceive the
connections between
the physical and the
intellectual
worlds."
A.v.Humboldt,
"Personal
Narrative..."

are likely to emerge. Whether

H|U|M|B|O|T succeeds in this task
of emancipating cinema from
strict consumption is beside the
point that such research and art
in this area provides touchstones
in a network of similar expanded
digital movie forms underway
on-line.
Audiences must not always be
uncurable consumers in order to
enter a movie. They may enter it
actively, interactively
co-creating the experience with
the author, participating in the
social-construction of new sorts
of audiovisual cinematic
narrative, a cybercinema, which
has become possible more so now
than ever, due to the ubiquity of
fast digital computing and global
communication, which already
through email and chat alone, has
turned the planet into a script,
and divided every individual
between themselves and one or
another avatar. There is, to the
dismay of Internet detractors, no
danger of schizophrenia, or a
loss of identity, when an
individual's deeper self and
their provisional avatars are in
constant communication with each
other, a natural occurance when
an individual is communicating
face-to-face and medially with
glocal thers.
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Portrait
of
Alexander
von
Humboldt.