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Delta_Ark rigorously investigates a future with hundreds of thousands of more forms of intelligence—a seventh kingdom of life (biological, digital and hybrid). We focus on exploring science fiction scenarios that depict future power relations between humans, augmented humans and various forms of artificial intelligence.

We conduct these explorations through creating large immersive virtual worlds where players, agents and player-agent teams coordinate to shape and transform the environment (and each other), through gameplay and performance.

These virtual worlds offer premonitions of a future machine age—illumating pathways, paradises and pitfalls.

Studio

The studio has developed three bodies of work: (1.) games, audio visual sets and events about artificial superintelligence, (2.) textual installations about social futurism and (3.) texts about desire, machines and spirituality. Subscribe for more info.

Lab

The lab is currently working (1.) MMOG infrastructure, (2.) generally capable agents, (3.) interactive motion capture and (4.) the combination thereof into a platform, (5.) w/supplementary theoretical writings. Subscribe for more info.

Foundry

The foundry builds complex animated characters that employ the most cutting edge ML and game AI algorithms for dialogue and behavior, along with the large and complex science fiction worlds they inhabit, for clients. Click here for more info.