Marek Poliks is a researcher in the philosophy of AI.

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Marek’s work is primarily concerned with the autonomy and self-organizing character of technical infrastructure. 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.

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Marek and Roberto’s 2025 book Exocapitalism: Economies with Absolutely No Limits (Becoming Press) lays bare 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” (Lil Internet),
- “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, Alarm, The New Centre for Research and Practice, and Metalabel.

You can watch their associated lecture at Trust, Berlin here, their interview by Mohammad Salemy at the New Centre for Research and Practice here, their interview by The Dangerous Maybe here, and you can read their interview for Nero here.

Exocapitalism is proud to feature an introduction from Charles Mudede, and outro from Alex Quicho, and illustrations by Avocado Ibuprofen.

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Marek and Roberto’s 2023 book Choreomata: Performance and Performativity After AI (Routledge / CRC /  Taylor & Francis) is incorporated into AI design curricula around the world.

Their 2024 lecture Non-Player Dynamics": Agency-Fetish in Game-World concludes hilariously (and to the great joy and appreciation of its authors) with the epilegomenon “holy fucking God… real philosophical courage” by Reza Negarestani.

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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).

Disintegrator involves guests from philosophy of computation (Google CTO of AI & Society Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Benjamin Bratton, M. Beatrice Fazi, 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, The Atlantic’s Alex Reisner, Mohammad Salemy, and McKenzie Wark a/o).

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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.

Marek’s practice as an exhibiting artist working between sculpture, robotics, and deep learning (often in partnership with Roberto Alonso Trillo) has involved exhibitions at Seed (CN), ICJAI (CA), Shenzhen Art Museum (CN), Osage (HK), EPFL (SZ), the Munich Biennale (DE), Kolumba (DE), among many others, has been featured by Adafruit (2018), and won the MA/IN sound art award of distinction (2023).

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Marek currently leads AI for LaunchDarkly.

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You can contact Marek via marek-at-disintegrator-dot-ai.