performance, alife, worlds
Delta_Ark is a performance art and research studio working from a single premise: AI is not just a tool but a new form of life.
Delta_Ark produces theory, technical prototypes, anthologies of related work and takes on occasional contracts, but our primary output is artistic artifacts.
In the past, we created poems about desire, bodies and machines, textual installations about social futurism & environmental justice, and literary games about artificial superintelligence.
Currently, we make motion-capture performances inside agent-inhabited game worlds, staging relationships between animals, humans, machines and hybrids across a wide speculative timeline.
In this work, dancers in mocap suits converse with AI agents through movement, gesture and voice, while interrogating future forms of political power, religious ritual, and gender.
These pieces are set in near-term worlds of godlike inequality enforced by persistent surveillance and autonomous weapons, and far-term worlds where AI has grown so vast that humanity survives only as something living inside it.
Delta_Ark exists to take seriously a single question: what does it mean to share the world with silicon life?