<META - Abstract = h|u|m|b|o|t is a 5-year (1999 - 2004) choragraphic installation project connecting a loose menagerie of architects, artists, datatects, hackers and writers to intermittent data-as-art situations in equatorial America and ØtherWhere, 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.>