ABSTRACT: “Kepesian Visualization is an emerging artistic and scientific genre that is focused on planetary science and has roots in scientific visualization and environmental art. The genre produces aesthetic engagement that reveals the intrinsic beauty of geophysical systems through data discovery by means of techniques that influence perception. This experimental approach focuses on the pre-attentive state in a non-photorealistic abstract form by employing two key elements: aesthetically biased symbolic representations designed for a fast-paced transient environment and subtle player interaction mechanisms. Such visualization is made possible by highly responsive systems and commodity computers with high-powered CPUs, graphics cards, main memory, extended disk space and network connectivity, allowing pervasive access to vast data resources. The use of on-line persistent worlds in which a user manipulates geophysical systems that are normally unseen extends the user’s ability to perceive underlying structure, enhances collaborative aspects of environmental agency, and provides artists with engaging new landscapes that can be interpreted and celebrated.” Gloria J. Brown-Simmons, Falko Kuester, Christopher J. H. Knox, So Yamaoka, and Daniel G. Repasky. Kepesian Visualization: Interacting with Earth Data. In Proceedings of Connectivity, the Tenth Biennial Arts and Technology Symposium at Connecticut College, pages 25–36. New London: Ammerman Center, Connecticut College, 2006.