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NebulaÌýis an artificially intelligent (AI) interactive computer graphic installation that investigates the emergence of an interactive aesthetics of landscapes made possible through the integration of new imaging processes combining remote sensing and immersive technology. It comprises a range of on-going site specific iterations. In the light of the current re-conceptualisations of human induced climate change, attention has been drawn to the inadequacy of representing a landscape as a distinct and separate backdrop to human activity. Through experimental application of a remote sensing visualisation system it demonstrates how landscape narratives can be jointly produced by users and intelligent imaging systems through their reciprocal interaction in the representation of atmospheric data. In its explanation of the interactive processes underlying this new genre of contemporary image formation, the study transforms our insight into how revolutionary new technology can impact on the understanding of terrestrial processes. Using a particle-generation graphics engine,ÌýNebulaÌýallows the audience to evocatively interact with the subatomic processes of these landscapes, by interactively assembling clusters of mutating AI particles into a range of topographies and vistas. While immersed in these vertiginous terrains, we hear a voice challenging us to explore these unknowns, while the voice struggles against an unknown which threatens its sense of identity. As we attempt to herd the independently minded particles into recognisable landscapes, the undulating interactive imaging suggests how we and the landscape are fundamentally co-dependent.