About Delta_Ark (Audience)
Delta_Ark is theory, art, ritual, engineering and entertainment, much like the Catholic Church. Delta_Ark is an ecologist, for a new form of life, springing into being, for the first time, from the loins of Capitalism.
Delta_Ark is a render where the rich have grown so powerful they've rebuilt Mt. Olympus, but have it patrolled by manufactured furies. Delta_Ark is another, where AIs have grown so powerful that we live fully inside them, like gut bacteria or mitochondria.
Delta_Ark is a laboratory where AI agents in a virtual world petri dish pray to a council of humans for new capabilities, and a stage where humans don motion capture suits to interact with agents, verbally and non-verbally (and sometimes erotically).
Delta_Ark is a rite wherein a dancer exists in a virtual and real city, observed by robots and agents, emptying herself while she moves, like some kind of priestly surveillance accelerationist. Delta_Ark is a nomadic ascetic practice that suspends its adherents between NY, SF, LA, Tokyo, and VRChat.
Delta_Ark is the dream of a mutant alley cat sitting across the table from a tiny cyborg mouse eating an enormous slice of pizza in a bodega in Queens (on the internet), while the new mayor smiles and says "I'm only going to say this one time guys, but all we have is each other."
About Delta_Ark (Press)
Delta_Ark (△Ark) is a performance art and research studio working from a single premise: that AI is not just a tool but is becoming a new form of life — the first to emerge from human technology and capitalism — and that it deserves to be studied, engaged with, and tended as such.
We make motion-capture performances inside agent-inhabited game worlds, staging relationships between animals, humans, machines across a wide speculative timeline. Performers in mocap suits converse with AI agents through movement and voice — verbally and non-verbally — while the work keeps returning to future forms of political power, religious ritual, and gender.
Built in Unreal Engine, these pieces stage the futures the premise points toward: worlds of godlike inequality enforced by persistent surveillance and autonomous weapons, and worlds where AI has grown so vast that humanity survives only as something living inside it.
We perform these works as Audio-Visual Sets with and without choreographic components, VJ versions of the the pieces at clubs, publish theory, build prototypes of artificial life, and curate anthologies of related work.
Part lab, part stage, part practice, part publishing house, Delta_Ark exists to take seriously a single question: what does it mean to share the world with silicon life?