Roberto Alonso Trillo

Roberto Alonso Trillo’s research engages the aesthetic and political dimensions of machine learning, with particular attention to infrastructure and performance. In ongoing collaboration with Marek Poliks, he investigates AI theory and speculative design as part of a broader inquiry into automation and cultural production.

His interdisciplinary practice extends into sound art, post-instrumental music, and critical pedagogy.

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Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo
in conversation with 邊界_systemsIn this conversation for 邊界_systems, Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo discuss Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits as a thesis about capital grasped “from above”: not necessarily a new historical phase, but an ontological recognition of capital as an abstract operational object whose logic is not exhausted by any human-centered discourse.

The interview stress-tests exocapitalism across contemporary art, Web3, AI-agent “Coasean” coordination, and the fate of “the political,” while explicitly situating the authors’ claims amid a web of references and interlocutors: James C. Scott via a shout-out attributed to Blaise Agüera y Arcas ; decentralization skepticism credited to Benjamin Bratton; and a direct engagement with Seb Krier’s agentic bargaining optimism. In the art register, they note how artists and theorists quickly “grasp the fold,” naming Hito Steyerl, Simon Denny, Mark Leckey, and Mohammad Salemy as adjacent nodes, while also drawing on McKenzie Wark, Catherine Malabou, and Beatrice Fazi for orientation on vectorialization, anarchism, and computation-as-thought; they even cite Nick Land’s reaction in the broader discourse ecosystem.learn more

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