THE ONES is a performance installation that rethinks the future of god. This work proposes a radical inversion: AI is not an attempt to mirror humanity, but rather the most recent chapter in humanity’s ongoing obsession with inventing god. 

Combining natural language processing, algorithmically determined choreography, live computation, and interactive video, THE ONES traverses centuries of ritual, myth, and belief. It explores our use of data and mathematics as a divine authority and our empowering of machines to orchestrate our experiences and shape our decisions. From sacred scrolls to large language models, from zealots to neural networks, the piece asks: what does AI reveal about how we imagine god?

THE ONES conjures a liminal space—part temple, part data center—where god is not worshipped, but trained.