CNDSD / Malitzin Cortés is a musician, programmer, speculative architect, and creative technologist exploring how sound, architecture, and emerging technologies generate speculative worlds and new forms of social and political interaction. Through creative coding, CGI, custom software and hardware, and extended realities, she merges the physical and digital to examine dark ecology, climate change, and planetary interdependence.
Trained as an architect at UNAM and specialized in creative coding for immersion at CENTRO, she blends self-taught music technology with international research in live coding and algorithmic composition. She teaches and conducts research at CENTRO and CMMAS, and has led masterclasses at institutions such as TAI (Spain), the Academy of Arts (China), NYU Shanghai, McMaster University (Canada), HKU (Netherlands), CUNY Graduate Center (NYC), and Washington University in St. Louis.
Her work has been shown at Centro Multimedia, Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, Ex Teresa, Sonar+D, Medialab Prado and Matadero Madrid, CMMAS, CTM Vorspiel, ISEA, CYLAND (St. Petersburg), Asia Culture Center (Korea), ADAF Athens, Ars Electronica, ZKM, and MUTEK in Mexico, Argentina, Montreal, and Japan. She has received the Lumen Prize Gold Award (AUTO{}construcción, 2023), the REALMIX Best Latin American Immersive Experience award, the ADAF VR Award, and support from Conaculta Mexico. Her residencies include On-the-Fly, ZKM Karlsruhe, and more.