--- title: "Grimes Wants to Send Her Mind to Mars Inside a “Humanoid Vessel”" description: "In an interview with British fashion and culture magazine The Face,  singer and visual artist Grimes revealed her wild plans to travel to Mars." date: "2020-02-21" modified: "2020-02-21" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/grimes-mind-mars-humanoid-vessel" categories: - "Astronomy" - "Future Society" - "Mars" - "Space" tags: - "elon musk" - "grimes" - "mars" - "the digest" --- # Grimes Wants to Send Her Mind to Mars Inside a “Humanoid Vessel” ![In an interview with British fashion and culture magazine The Face,  singer and visual artist Grimes revealed her wild plans to travel to Mars.]() *\Image: 4AD\* ## Brain Jar In a new [interview]() with British magazine *The Face*, singer and visual artist Grimes revealed her wild plans to travel to Mars. When asked if she'd "rather go to Mars or upload your consciousness to the cloud," the renowned musician — and [Elon Musk love interest ]()— couldn't make up her mind. But she settled on a spacey alternative. "I guess I’d like to upload my consciousness, and then when it’s technologically possible, have my consciousness live in some kind of humanoid vessel that can speak and move freely, and then that body can go to Mars and other planets with my mind inside it," she pondered. ## Promo Tour It's been a turbulent couple of months for the Canadian performer. First, she made an [appearance]() at the 2020 Game Awards and then [announced]() she was having a child. Her long-awaited fifth studio album called "[Miss Anthropocene]()" also dropped today, to widespread fanfare. Grimes also spoke of her new "digital avatar, aka my digital self," which she calls "WarNymph," a freaky-looking computer generated alien humanoid with enlarged eyes, copious amounts of virtual cosmetics, and wearing the newest duds by fashion house Balenciaga. ## Identity Potential This avatar takes the brunt of the grim bullshit humans have to put up with in 2020. "The avatar allows us to play to the strengths of digital existence rather than be a human trying to navigate a world that isn’t made for us," she told the magazine. "For example, the digital body can age, die, respawn, change her face… There’s so much identity potential!" "I wanted to untether my digital self from my humanity," Grimes said. "WarNymph can take on the burden of the new world. I can live more freely IRL." **READ MORE:** [Grimes says going to Mars is one of the 'main things I'm trying to do' — and it's also the goal of her boyfriend Elon Musk's rocket company, SpaceX]() **More on Grimes:** *[Grimes: Humanity Is At The “End of Art, Human Art”]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()