Roberto Alonso Trillo
Guests
Marek Poliks is an award-winning researcher in the philosophy of technology, especially with respect to deep learning. He’s based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He frequently collaborates with Roberto Alonso Trillo (HKBU). Marek and Roberto won Google’s prestigious Art and Machine Intelligence Award on the subject of AI interface design.
Marek and Roberto’s podcast Disintegrator (in collaboration with curator Helena McFadzean and producer Rubén Bañuelos) has been lauded by celebrated journalists, artworld insiders, and technology futurists as a major trend-forecasting object in the relationship between algorithm and media (“the most sophisticated conversations about AI going”, Novara Media). It boasts guests from philosophy of computation (Google CTO of AI & Society Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Benjamin Bratton, M. Beatrice Fazi, Reza Negarestani, Catherine Malabou, Luciana Parisi, a/o), artists working with AI (Refik Anadol, Tega Brain, Jon McCormack, Sasha Stiles, Jennifer Walshe, a/o), and critical/social theory especially as it overlaps with algorithm and compute (Timothy Morton, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, Mohammad Salemy, and McKenzie Wark a/o).
Their 2025 book Exocapitalism: Economies with Absolutely No Limits deconstructs the formal entanglements between capitalism and computation through the lens of ontology. Blistering and unforgiving, it has been described as “unbelievably inspiring” (Hito Steyerl, Die Welt), an “info-hazard” (Metalabel), “enlightening and infuriating; a book to be reckoned with” (Tiziana Terranova), the “Das Kapital of the 21st Century” (New Models), “an immense favor… a latency theory of accumulation” (Suhail Malik), “[by] Hegel’s grandchildren” (Nick Land, derogatory), and is on top 10 lists of 2025 from Artforum, The New Centre for Research and Practice, and Metalabel.
Their 2023 book Choreomata: Performance and Performativity After AI (Routledge / CRC / Taylor & Francis) is incorporated into AI design curricula around the world.
Before moving to the midwest in 2020, Marek got his PhD from Harvard University and taught in Berklee College of Music’s Electronic Production and Design department.
