education
Delia Beatriz holds a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University and a Master of Music from New York University, where she developed a practice that merges historical research, experimental sound, and technological critique.
Her undergraduate thesis at Brown, The Incunables, investigated the printing press as an early colonial technology, focusing on its role in the consolidation of epistemic power during the first wave of European conquest in the Americas. The work reframed incunabula not merely as artifacts of typographic history, but as instruments of linguistic erasure and regime-building. By tracing the entanglement of printed matter with the suppression of indigenous knowledge systems, the thesis offered a media-archaeological approach to coloniality and inscription.
At NYU, her Master of Music research laid the groundwork for The Long Count, an ongoing project that explores the afterlives of pre-Hispanic wind instruments through contemporary synthesis and machine learning. Her work involved the sonic reconstruction of archaeological instruments—such as death whistles, flutes, and ocarinas—and the speculative design of AI models trained on their timbral logics. Through this, she articulated a new form of sonic fiction that listens across temporal divides, engaging with the politics of voice, memory, and non-Western cosmotechnics.
Together, these two bodies of research form a cohesive inquiry into how media technologies—whether typographic or algorithmic—shape what can be heard, remembered, or forgotten.
