Abstract

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Mount Mount Chimborazo plant, topography and altitude

mapping,
source: Alexander von Humboldt, Geography of Plants, 1807.

Humboldt and H|U|M|B|O|T's New Nature of

Narrative for a New Narrative of Nature
Humboldt invented a new nature of narrative for a
narrative of nature two centuries ago, freeing
scientific scholars and writers from hiding behind
an 'Enlightened' objectivity, freeing natural
scientists to enter their own pictures and models
of a natural world, to see themselves as part of
their observations.
H|U|M|B|O|T takes a quantum d-video and ascii leap
in this regard. Aided by hypertext, database,
neural net and data visualization computation, as
well as affordable digital content production and
delivery technology, H|U|M|B|O|T's audience enters
the picture as well, and traces of what they find
and when, become the cyberscore for editing what
future audience members will be watching, when and
if they choose to set H|U|M|B|O|T in its new
autopilot cybercinema mode.
This collaborative mise en scne is unprecedented
in expanded digital cinema. In short, Humboldt and

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Kohonen Map
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his H|U|M|B|O|T readers supply the cyberscript.

H|U|M|B|O|T authors add hypermovies, and the
resulting well or web of travel-as-artas-information, a deep cyberatlas if you like, is
presented to audiences for navigation. As such,
along with Humboldt and H|U|M|B|O|T authors, the
audience becomes a co-traveller, their itinerary
tracing possible travels, hypermovies, for future
author-audiences.
[Back: Remapping Humboldt]
[Next: Cinema not Near you but In you.]

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