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Humboldt
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MFG Baden-Württemberg
DIGITAL CONTENT AWARD competition entry
H|U|M|B|O|T Readers rewrite Humboldt's Text as Cyberscript Humboldt's Personal Narrative... was digitized in Bangalore in 1998. Its introduction and 23 chapters were distributed to art theory, theater science and gender study students from England, Germany and Africa, as well as H|U|M|B|O|T core authors. Each read chapters, and subjectively inserted special markers into Humboldt's text. 4 marker types - cardinal directions - were used to read into Humboldt's text. The marked-up Humboldt text, and subsequently all H|U|M|B|O|T digital videos, are fed into a neural net (Kohonen Self-Organizing Map) text program to to produce a single screen mapping or weave embedded with Humboldt and H|U|M|B|O|T content, clustered according to values read in by the 4 marker types, which are:
By reading into Humboldt's writing subjectively, our readers adapted a new sort of hypernarrative for Humboldt's book as H|U|M|B|O|T's cyberscript, that cues over time hypermovies being produced and fed into the neural networked cybercinema code, thus producing an author-audience, participatory and collaborative, dynamic, multimedia content mapping event - travel-as-art-as-information cybercinema. [Barthes]
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Reader Annotated Version of the INTRODUCTION, and all 23 Unannotated CHAPTERS of "Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent 1799 - 1804". INTRODUCTION CHAPTER
1 The 4 markers - emotion, time, keyword and location - attributed each Humboldt text and H|U|M|B|O|T video, are the parameters used by the neural met Self-Organizing Mapping code - Kohonen Mapping - used to compose clusters, or neighborhoods, of content on a dynamic screen of digital hypermovie clips and Humboldt hypertext.
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