H|U|M|B|O|T 1999-2004 CONTENT created by Philip Pocock 2001

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

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H|U|M|B|O|T
C|O|N|10|T

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.

t(R)opical
chor(e)ograp

With Humbold
words as
H|U|M|B|O|T'
topos
neural net
algorithm as
cartographer
H|U|M|B|O|T
cyberscript
presents an
electronic
chorographic
space of top
from the tro
historically
presently, f
audiences to
navigate, th
choices and
traces
choreographi
or
chor(e)ograp
the screen s
of hypermovi
for future s
users.

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
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

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Connectionis
Cosmos

"The more
travellers
research int
natural hist
geography or
political
economy, the
their journe
loses that u
and simplici
composition

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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.

typical of t
earlier
travellers.
now virtuall
impossible t
link so many
different fi
of research
narrative so
what we may
the dramatic
events give
to descripti
passages."

source: Alex
von Humboldt
"Personal
Narrative of
Journey to t
Equinoctial
Region of th
Continent",

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