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Penumbra is an artistic application of the larger iFire project. Adapted from Georg Buchner’s Lenz of 1836, it allows the viewer to interactively navigate a software generated extreme wildfire, using real-time motion tracking of the viewer’s gaze and movement. It is geo-located to the Voges mountains in Germany, the originally setting for Lenz. Extreme wildfires are an entirely new paradigm of fire, unprecedented because of their unpredictable behaviour, monumental scale, extraordinary speed and ability to create their own weather system. This was particularly evident in Lahaina, Hawaii, in 2023, which was assaulted by three fire storms from different directions. Rather than watching these wildfires as distant observers of news footage, Penumbra takes us into the heart of a wildfire and allows it to speak to us with its own powerful voice, full of sadness and trepidation as it immerses us inside our problematic future.