This is Hydra. It’s a soft robot that lures you closer, records you, uploads your audio data to the Cloud, and mingles your information with the rest of its reproductive prey in our Demiurge GAN synthesis engine.
The model playing in this video was trained by audio from cocreator Roberto Alonso Trillo, as he documented himself in quarantine hotels in Hong Kong over many months.
More info in bio.
#artificialintelligence #softrobotics #GAN #raspberrypi
hydra no.2 and polyp at MA/IN in a grotto under lecce
both pieces are surveillance objects that train audio ml models based on their environments; they are open reproductive portals with their world
thanks to @mainfestival for the award of distinction, and thanks to @trillo.roberto for being the most brilliant, heroic, and indefatigable artistic partner
#ai #softrobotics #audiosurveillance
Sharing some snaps from a recent exhibition in Shenzhen, at SeeD in Longcheng. 2 pieces with soft robots that perform unconditional audio generation based on audio from their environments. I developed these works with creative partner and BFF @trillo.roberto .
Polyp (egg-slash-tumor robots in yak hair nests) and Hydra (silicone tentacles on silicone pools) position deep learning (and algorithm generally) as a mode of reproduction. These sculptures are open reproductive portals, raising questions about consent logics and experiences of mutuality, cobeing, or solidarity as coparents within datasets.
LOVE SHENZHEN
#softrobotics #robotics #ai #aiaudio
Think Meta and Google run on surveillance? Think again. Writing in our Spring 2026 issue, “Everything’s Computer,” the authors of “Exocapitalism” claim that the vast fractal of speculative finance called Silicon Valley is not only indifferent to our data – it no longer needs human users exist.
Print copies are selling fast, order your copy from our online shop >>> /products/issue-87-spring-2026-everythings-computer
And if you can’t wait to read Marek & Roberto on the dusky, enormous tumor called capital, try an e-paper >>> /products/issue-87-spring-2026-everythings-computer
Images
1. Hiroki Tsukuda, Mothman next to my home, 2025
2. Hiroki Tsukuda, Jet and star, 2025
Both courtesy: the artist and NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan
@becoming.press@hirokitsukuda@nanzukaunderground
#spikeartmagazine #everythingscomputer #exocapitalism
Thrilled to be hosting the Center for Computational and Diagrammatic Philosophy at MIT next week - join in person or on zoom -
ACT MIT and Disintegrator are pleased to present Reasoning Beyond Syntax: The diagrammatic Nature of Artificial Intelligence - A lecture by Fernando Thome, Rocco Gangle and Gianluca Catarina. Classical logic and early Artificial Intelligence were built upon a syntactic paradigm: the idea that reasoning is the manipulation of linear strings of symbols according to fixed rules. In this talk, the argument will be made that this perspective is insufficient for understanding complex systems, particularly modern Large Language Models (LLMs). We propose a fundamental shift toward diagrammatic reasoning not diagrams as mere illustrations, but diagrams as the primary engine of thought.
This is demonstrated through Category Theory, Sheaves, and Toposes and prevent that they provide the rigorous mathematical foundation for this shift. Unlike syntactic logic, which processes information serially, diagrammatic mathematics captures reasoning as composition, structure preservation, and context-dependence.
new episode w the meme god themselves @no.investigues (en español — eng translation in description)
producer @ruben_tildeenlae drives this one with @trillo.roberto — on ineluctability and learning to live within the apocalypse
disintegrator wherever u get your podcasts
In this video excerpt from the first Session of our Seminar "Understanding Exocapitalism," Marek Poliks @dis.integrator and Roberto Alonso Trillo @trillo.roberto introduce the central wager of the course: that capitalism is not a human institution but a transcendental process indifferent to us. Drawing on the concept of arbitrage as the operative unit of all capitalist activity, they collapse tens of thousands of years of economic history into a single logical kernel, and show how that kernel scales beyond labor, beyond production, and beyond any measure the human can recognize as its own.
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The finale to our Venice conference in September 2025 took place at @books.bruno , and featured Marek Poliks & Roberto Alonso Trillo’s first presentation of Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits (2025) together since its release in August. This talk was, in many ways, a test run for more than a year of presenting the book around the world. Each lecture is slightly different, with slightly different references and case studies, making each presentation of Exocapitalism (2025) worth watching.
Watch via /seminars:
https://becoming.press/lift-presentation-of-exocapitalism-(2025)-at-bruno-books-with-marek-poliks-roberto-alonso-trillo
