MYRIAD. Where we connect. | VR Experience

MYRIAD. Where we connect. | VR Experience
An artistic experience of a poetic journey following the paths of three migratory animals.

MYRIAD is a project about animal migration in the Anthropocene and has crafted a highly artistic and poetic virtual reality experience, based on scientific migratory data, that invites the visitor to experience our world as an interdependent system. We follow the migratory journeys of three animals: The Bald Ibis, the Arctic Fox, and the Green Sea Turtle, along wind and ocean currents, across continents and through soaring mountain ranges as they make their way around the globe.

From global to elemental, Myriad includes the science of interconnectedness into an outstanding artistic concept by creating a world out of carbon. Flexible and abundant, carbon is an element that forms the basis of all life on earth. MYRIAD’s visual concept makes use of this building block as a narrative and aesthetic link between individual elements and global networks to show how all life on earth is part of an endlessly connected cycle.

Carbon is the main creational and artistic element across all MYRIAD’s formats, generating atmospheres and landscapes, transporting movement and reconfiguring interaction in a constantly changing, living cosmos. Analog charcoal drawings, produced in the studio, are integrated in the digital VR environment and combined with carbon particle systems to form the world of MYRIAD. As they disintegrate and reassemble, they convey a feeling of organic vitality and a unified understanding of a world that is in constant change and in which everything is interconnected.

Experiencing natural cycles from an entirely new perspective catalyzes an intuitive, rich understanding of the natural world, while generating a newly responsible attitude towards the impact of human behavior on an individual and global scale. One journey at a time, MYRIAD’s immersive, unique experiences activate individuals’ connection to the world we share and the marvelous beings we share it with.

The VR experience MYRIAD is a project from the non-profit organization Interactive Media Foundation and Filmtank in co-creation with Miiqo Studios and Artificial Rome. With scientific support of Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Natural History Museum Berlin) / Mediasphere for Nature, Waldrappteam / LIFE Northern Bald Ibis, Deutsches Meeresmuseum Stralsund (German Oceanographic Museum), University of Exeter, Ascension Island Government, Zoo in der Wingst, Norwegian Polar Institute, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research and RiffReporter. Supported by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

The VR Experience is part of the international crossmedia project MYRIAD. Where we connect.
This takes place in the form of an artistic and poetic virtual reality experience, a 360° 3 D documentary, a primetime TV documentary, a fulldome experience, an immersive, interactive exhibition, labs and citizen science projects, as well as other complementary formats. They all aim to reorient audiences’ relationship with the environment, and spark active engagement with local efforts to conserve the earth’s biodiversity.

A project of Interactive Media Foundation and Filmtank
In co-creation with Miiqo Studios, Context Film and Artificial Rome
With the scientific support of Max-Planck-Institute of Animal Behavior, Museum für Naturkunde
Berlin/ Mediasphere for Nature, Waldrappteam/ LIFE Northern Bald Ibis, Deutsches Meeresmuseum
Stralsund, University of Exeter, Ascension Island Government, Zoo in der Wingst, Norwegian Polar
Institute, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, zoosuisse, Tiergarten Schönbrunn
In alliance with World Wide Life Fund (WWF)
In cooperation with ARD/ SWR, RiffReporter and Occupied VR
Supported by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MFG Baden-Württemberg, Canada Media Fund, Bell Fund