H|U|M|B|O|T
is a 5-year
(1999 - 2004) chorographic installation project connecting a loose
menagerie of architects, artists, datatects, hackers and writers to
intermittent travel-as-art situations in equatorial America and ØtherWhere
on the new New Continent, taking the explorer and mapmaker Alexander
von Humboldt's book "Personal Narrative of a Journey to the
Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent (1799 - 1804)" as its
topos.

screenshot
montage: www.humbot.org
Hyperconfigured
as our 'script' using artificial neural network Kohonen
mapping Humboldt's chronicle gets eventually buried under sediments
of contemporary fictional and interpersonal hypermedia. Net users
sift through dynamic layers of Humboldt and h|u|m|b|o|t material,
leaving traces, pictured as landscape in a virtual topography (cyberatlas)
of unfolding h|u|m|b|o|t situations.
in
the media | humbot
in the Berlin Galery K&S, comentated by the daily newspaper
Berliner Morgenpost (25th January 2000) (german)
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Øthers include 1999: Udo Noll, Florian Wenz, Guppo A12, Elena
Carmangiani, Andrea DiRosa, Roberto Cabot, Walter van der Cruijsen,
Juergen Enge, Wolfgang Stehle: 2000: Annie Corbel.
© Tobias Kraft. Universität
Potsdam.03 Jul 02
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