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Alexander von Humboldt's travel route to the New Continent1799 - 1804.source : "Personal Narrative of a Journey to the EquinoctialRegions of the New Continent 1799 - 1804". H|U|M|B|O|T's 1999 - 2000 zone of travel and digitalcontent clip production.

H|U|M|B|O|T 1999-2004 Remaps Humboldt'sfamous South American Travels.

In honor of the 200th anniversary of Alexander vonHumboldt's landmark expedition to the NewContinent of South America in 1799 - 1804,H|U|M|B|O|T revisits a very different SouthAmerica over a 5-year period, 1999 - 2004. Itslows new media down to remap without nostalgiaHumboldt's text in light of H|U|M|B|O|T's digitalcontent clips, produced from several forays inSouth America, and ØtherWhere on the New NewContinent of cyberspace. Eventually Humboldt'spassages will be buried by new digital content

t(R)opicalchor(e)ography

With Humboldt'swords asH|U|M|B|O|T'stopos, and a neuranet algorithm ascartographer, theH|U|M|B|O|Tcyberscriptpresents anelectronicchorographicof topics from thetropics,historically andpresently, foraudiences tonavigate, theirchoices and traceschoreographing, orchor(e)ographingthe screen space ohypermoviesfuture site users.

ConnectionistCosmos

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production, and thus become its template, itscyberscript.

H|U|M|B|O|T is cybercinema. It blurs boundaries,geo-temporal and narrative ones, as well as themore stubborn cinematic one between author andaudience. The classical cinema screen boundarydisappears and in its place H|U|M|B|O|T creates adeep multi-dimensional one, allowing audiences tocross-over and become co-editors in theH|U|M|B|O|T cybercinema.

And like Humboldt's painful search for a narrativeform - it took him 35 years to write up what was a5-year travel! - H|U|M|B|O|T connects things,mapping, clustering autobiographical, documentaryas well as lyrical subjects and objects, accordingto subjective (reader) and computative(neural-net) measures, into a fascinating cosmosfor reading, browsing and experiencing for manyyears to come.

H|U|M|B|O|T is a means rather than an end ofcinema, and like its growing body of digital mediacontent input, H|U|M|B|O|T's programming code[Burckhardt, Noll, Wenz] and delivery modes andaesthetic [Pocock, Stehle, Guppo A12, Øthers] alsomake leaps and bounds over its cybercinematic5-year run.

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their journey losethat unity andsimplicity ofcomposition typicaof the earliertravellers. It isnow virtuallyimpossible to linkso many differentfields of researchin a narrative sothat what we maycall the dramaticevents give way todescriptivepassages."

source: Alexandervon Humboldt,"Personal Narrativof a Journey to thEquinoctial Regionof the NewContinent", 1811.