While cavorting around Europe and going to various conferences and festivals for a brief week and a half, I was on the Hans Ulrich Obrist tour, I saw him three times in totally different locations across Europe, and the in between time, he was in New York, Reykjavik, and Granada (well-documented in pictures by Artforum.com). A dream project of mine is to map the globetrotting Swiss curator's travels. In a way, I don't think HUO is any better or worse than other curators, but his absolute ubiquity is near legendary and this ubiquity is worth capturing, how many others, probably not even businessmen or travelling salesmen or diplomats have the travel route of the indefatigable HUO. The relatively low-cost of travel coupled with globalization make HUO a cultural harbinger. Though other art folks travel quite a bit, I don't think anyone does it like him

The HUO map of the world: every place he travels would be mapped and if he visits a place more than once (London, New York, Basel) the circle of his visit gets larger with the number of his visits in the center. The map would be updated according to HUO's travel schedule which is regular.

Wherever there's creative entrepreneurship or urban cheerleading events or academic conferences, HUO will be there. Like a Tom Joad for using creativity for the purpose of development, HUO will be there. From China to Russia to LA to Dubai to Granada to Cagliari to New York to Sao Paolo to Dakar, HUO has been there. In the end, if I were looking to hire a spy, I'd recruit HUO.

I think this could be a beautiful web project if any web designer's out there want to collaborate on the HUO Map of the World, either as a Google Maps or Google Earth hack. Or I offer this idea freely to the world, if anyone's got the chutzpah to put it together.