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H | U | M | B | O | T

1999 - 2004

 

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.

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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)

 

* 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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