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Abstract

Installation

h|u|m|b|o|t

Mount Mount Chimborazo plant, topography and

altitude mapping,

source: Alexander von Humboldt, Geography ofPlants, 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 naturetwo

centuries ago, freeing scientific

scholars and writers from hiding behindan '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 productionand 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 cyberscorefor 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 his

Database

Dilemma

"Towards the

end of our

journey this

last collection

formed

|forty-two

boxes

containing a

herbal of 6,000

equinoctial

seeds, shells

and insects ...

Often, to add

new geological

specimens we

had to throw

away otherslong before.

Such sacrifices

were no less

painful than

what we lost

through

accidents."

Source: A.v.

Humboldt,

"Personal

Narrative of a

Journey to the

Equinoctial

Regions of the

New Continent

1799 - 1804".

KohonenMapping

of Humboldt's

book "Personal

Narrative..."

taken passage

by passage and

marked-up

subjectively by

h|u|m|b|o|t

readers

according to 4

parameters -emotion and

modifier,


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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-art-as-information, a

deep cyberatlasif you like, is

presented to audiences for navigation.

As such, along with Humboldt andH|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.]

keyword and

commentary,

location and

position, and

time.

The number of

squares are theresult of the

number of

primary

concepts

contained in

Humboldt's

entire book,

cover to cover.

The color of

each square

indicates, in

ascending order

- opaque to

bright yellow -

the number of

passages

associated

within a single

concept. The

arrangement of

the squares

indicates

'neighborhoods'

of concepts -

those inproximity share

similar content

and those

distant,

disparate

content.

The Kohonen

Self-Organizing

Mapping carried

out on

Humboldt's text

looks for

crucial

markings 'read

into' his text

by h|u|m|b|o|t

readers. The 4

markers

indicating,

passage by

passage, a

subjective view

of Humboldt's

emotion and a

modifier,

keywords and


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commentaries,

position (GPS)

and location,

as well as a

chronicles

standard

parameter of

time, in thiscase

interpreted

through the

prose, i.e. "We

set off at

dawn...",

"Minutes

later", or

"After

lunch..." to an

exactness

approachinghours, minutes

and seconds.

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