Penumbra2.0
Dennis Del Favero, Yang Song, Khalid Moinuddin, Charles Green, Jason John Sharples, Alex Ong, Navin Brohier · 2023
Penumbra2.0 is an AI immersive art installation exploring the visualisation of an unpredictable extreme wildfire scenario using a pyro-aesthetic, an aesthetic based on the perceptual qualities of this fire type. Currently seen in Canada, these wildfires are extreme in their speed and scale. They are unpredictable as their behaviour moves across terrains in unforeseen ways, unlike the linear and predictable paths of bushfires. Using geo-located data, Penumbra2.0 recreates an actual wildfire in the Vosges mountains, France, 2020. It has been collaboratively developed by art, AI and fire researchers.