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 and his primary research partner Roberto Alonso Trillo (HKBU) have been working to situate deep learning tools as endosymbiotic reproductive infrastructure (inorganic vehicles through which biological, epistemological, and social information is encoded, subject to contingent processes, and transmitted). Their work most recently won Google’s prestigious Art and Machine Intelligence Award on the subject of AI interface design.  Marek and Roberto 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 (Routledge / CRC /  Taylor & Francis) is incorporated into AI design curricula around the world. They are completing two upcoming books, one on algorithmic capital and high-frequency trading and the other on AI agents, interfaces, and “agentiality.” Marek and Roberto’s podcast Disintegrator has been lauded by celebrated journalists, artworld insiders, and technology futurists as a major trend-forecasting object in the relationship between algorithm and media.

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. His work in the field of music technology has been exhibited and performed in 18 countries on 4 continents, and has been released by Neos, Creotz, another timbre, and Geryon. Marek also works as Technical Sales Director for the intelligent device platform Particle, overseeing Sales Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Technical Account Management, and Business Intelligence.

Get in touch via marek - at - disintegrator - dot - ai.