Leaving Earth | anngrim

LEAVING EARTH 3047

is a virtual reality artwork

of a dream in space and beyond

The user will be projected into a fiction of anticipation, revelling possible futures.

A first extract has been show in Oaxaca Contemporary Art Museum.

The full project, led since 2016, invits the user to ride an Xray shark trough a submerged citiy, witnessing traces of a past civilisation.

S/He can lead its shark towards a journey into a fictional cosmos passing by all sorts of different space ships, interactive asteroids fields, planets, dreamed environments and evolved livings mixing futuristic and historical dimensions.

S/He will be free to evolve where ever s/he wants in Ann Grim's 3D animated dream and beyond...

Where no bounderies stands, allowing humans to take some distance from their position on Earth, contemplate and possibly redefine their role and future in Space.

Curtesy Matthieu Vovan (3D and VR production and collaboration)

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Diving board in perfect alignment Preparatory study	The inside of the sphere Preparatory study In a monumental sphere, on the platform, at the viewer’s reach are three large rocks covered in lichens and other livings.	Interactive rocks Preparatory study. If/when the viewer places his/her hands on a rock, s/he will/would shrink to a minuscule size, surrounded by what will/would feel like a jungle. The viewer will be able to explore his/her new environment for a few seconds and will be restored to normal size. Each rock will transport the viewer in a different world: #1: a rising water #2: burnt wood and words #3: sharks and underwater	Interaction into the cosmos Preparatory study After x minutes, the visual is literally sucked up, replicating a black hole. The background becomes a reproduction of the existing «real» environement where the vr booth is.
The sphere Preparatory study The sphere breaking in two. Everything around him/her seems to split, in an almighty crash sound, electric spikes travel on the surface of the sphere around the viewer.	Wormhole spatiotemporal door Preparatory study A wormhole hole appears to the viewer, allowing him/her to be beamed out of the sphere and into the cosmos. He/she can use that “door” to go back in and out again as he/she pleases.	Ann Grim bespoke Leaving Gaia brush Preparatory study I am in the process of developing a customised brush, “the bespoke Leaving Gaia brush” allowing the viewer to use unconventional accessories to draw or write in 3D and where the user gives a direction to the tool and the brush continues the movement. The viewer can activate a “drawing mode” or a “writing mode” through the joystick at any time during the VR experience.	Ann Grim bespoke Leaving Gaia brush #bloodnetwork Preparatory study S/He will access to a that brush prolongs the movement of the hand These options are in keeping with my writing and the tools I have used thus far in my work and in my world. Try for yourself on anngrim.fr

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The sphere breaking in two. Everything around him/her seems to split, in an almighty crash sound, electric spikes travel on the surface of the sphere around the viewer.	For the first two seconds, the viewer is in total darkness. Everything around him/her seems to split, in an almighty crash sound, electric spikes travel on the surface of the sphere around the viewer. The sphere slowly splits into two semi-spheres perfectly symmetrical. A halo of light also perfectly circular lets some light in slowly.	In a monumental sphere, on the platform, at the viewer’s reach are three large rocks covered in lichens and other livings.
		If/when the viewer places his/her hands on a rock, he/she will/would shrink to a minuscule size, surrounded by what will/would feel like a jungle. The viewer will be able to explore his/her new environment for a few seconds and will be restored to normal size. Each rock will transport the viewer in a different world: #1: a rising water #2: burnt wood and words #3: sharks and underwater
2001_odyssee	I am in the process of developing a customised brush, “the bespoke Leaving Gaia brush” allowing the viewer to use unconventional accessories to draw or write in 3D and where the user gives a direction to the tool and the brush continues the movement. The viewer can activate a “drawing mode” or a “writing mode” through the joystick at any time during the VR experience.	He/she will access to a that brush prolongs the movement of the hand These options are in keeping with my writing and the tools I have used thus far in my work and in my world. Try for yourself on anngrim.fr
The platform and the halo are perfectly aligned.	In the darkness of the cosmos	A wormhole hole appears to the viewer, allowing him/her to be beamed out of the sphere and into the cosmos. He/she can use that “door” to go back in and out again as he/she pleases.
On the outside the viewer discovers the cosmos. He/she can move the sphere wherever he/she wants. He/she can also interact with asteroids or stars he/she may come across by breaking them.	After x minutes, the visual is literally sucked up, replicating a black hole. The background becomes a reproduction of the existing «real» environement where the vr booth is.	Thus providing a supernatural rule breaking experience.

— Ann Grim, Preparatory studies

LEAVING EARTH 3047

is a virtual reality artwork

of a dream in space and beyond

Diving board in perfect alignment

Preparatory study

The inside of the sphere

Preparatory study In a monumental sphere, on the platform, at the viewer’s reach are three large rocks covered in lichens and other livings.

Interactive rocks

Interaction into the cosmos

Preparatory study After x minutes, the visual is literally sucked up, replicating a black hole. The background becomes a reproduction of the existing «real» environement where the vr booth is.

The sphere

Preparatory study The sphere breaking in two. Everything around him/her seems to split, in an almighty crash sound, electric spikes travel on the surface of the sphere around the viewer.

Wormhole spatiotemporal door

Preparatory study A wormhole hole appears to the viewer, allowing him/her to be beamed out of the sphere and into the cosmos. He/she can use that “door” to go back in and out again as he/she pleases.

Ann Grim bespoke Leaving Gaia brush

Ann Grim bespoke Leaving Gaia brush #bloodnetwork

Preparatory study S/He will access to a that brush prolongs the movement of the hand These options are in keeping with my writing and the tools I have used thus far in my work and in my world. Try for yourself on anngrim.fr

The sphere breaking in two. Everything around him/her seems to split, in an almighty crash sound, electric spikes travel on the surface of the sphere around the viewer.

In a monumental sphere, on the platform, at the viewer’s reach are three large rocks covered in lichens and other livings.

2001_odyssee

He/she will access to a that brush prolongs the movement of the hand These options are in keeping with my writing and the tools I have used thus far in my work and in my world. Try for yourself on anngrim.fr

The platform and the halo are perfectly aligned.

In the darkness of the cosmos

A wormhole hole appears to the viewer, allowing him/her to be beamed out of the sphere and into the cosmos. He/she can use that “door” to go back in and out again as he/she pleases.

On the outside the viewer discovers the cosmos. He/she can move the sphere wherever he/she wants. He/she can also interact with asteroids or stars he/she may come across by breaking them.

After x minutes, the visual is literally sucked up, replicating a black hole. The background becomes a reproduction of the existing «real» environement where the vr booth is.

Thus providing a supernatural rule breaking experience.

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