New Models describes Marek Poliks’ work as:

“a transcontinental cave system, impossible to fully explore… deep learning audio synthesis engines, interactive systems, reproductive soft robots, Cambridge, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Dubai… a kind of theory of everything for the age of AI and algorithmic capital, offering a pair of ‘They Live’ glasses for the contemporary online subject. […] I’m as excited about this as I was when I came across Bratton’s The Stack.” 

Marek is fascinated by the historical determinations of modern subjectivity and is giddily watching their contemporary expressions disassemble and liquify under the regime of algorithmic capital.

Marek and his primary research partner Roberto Alonso Trillo (HKBU) have been working to situate deep learning tools (transformers, GANs) as reproductive infrastructure (social, cultural, epistemological, biological reproduction). Their work most recently won Google’s prestigious Art and Machine Intelligence Award, MA/IN’s (IT) Award of Distinction for Installations/Sound Art, and was named a “Must See” by 新媒体艺术站 (CN). They have been exhibiting, curating, and publishing research for MIT Press, Cambridge University Press, the Orpheus Insituut (BE), Osage (HK), Seed (CN), Sensilab Monash/Prato (AUS) a/o. Their celebrated book Choreomata: Performance and Performativity After AI is out on Routledge/CRC/Taylor & Francis, articulated via events in collaboration with Foreign Objekt, and incorporated into AI design curricula around the world.

Marek is the interactive technology lead for the design firm Polytope (for which he designed interaction systems at the Museum of the Future, Dubai, including the SEGD Global Design Award-winning and Architecture MasterPrize “Best of the Best” Award-winning Al Waha). Marek runs technical relationships for an Edge AI infrastructure company close to his heart, serving as Particle’s Director of Technical Success.

Before moving to the midwest, Marek got his PhD from Harvard University and taught in Berklee College of Music’s Electronic Production and Design department. His work has been exhibited and performed in 18 countries on 4 continents, and has been released by Neos, Creotz, another timbre, and Geryon.