HUMAN-MACHINE REPRODUCTION


Marek Poliks (b. 1989) is an independent artist, engineer, and theorist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He 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. He works with machine learning as applied to sound, digital media, robotics, and sculpture.  His visual work is on display now in Shenzhen, New York, and Dubai.

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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). 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 work most recently won 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). Their upcoming book Choreomata: Performance and Performativity After AI is out on Routledge/CRC/Taylor & Francis, articulated via events in collaboration with Foreign Objekt.

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-to-Cloud platform 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.