Orus Mateo Castaño-Suárez is an award-winning academic, artist, and designer who builds transdisciplinary collaboration across technology, mathematics, science, and the humanities. Castaño-Suárez uses the neuroscience and epistemology of the visuospatial to develop emerging and anticipatory cybernetic research methods that accelerate climate resilience and sustainability transitions. Innovation in their work is inextricably linked to anti-oppression and Indigenous futurities. Castaño-Suárez contributes to research in Canada and internationally, with notable presentations at Harvard University.

Castaño-Suárez, Orus Mateo. 2025. What may be known: methods for activating large texts and graphs in the climate crisis. Masters thesis, OCAD University.

Castaño-Suárez, Orus Mateo. (2025) “Terroir of Text and Graphs: spiritually-informed representations of the relationship between place and visuospatial forms of knowledge production,” in. Harvard Divinity School: Program for the Evolution of Spirituality (Spirituality and the Arts). Available at: https://pes.hds.harvard.edu/publication/terroir-text-and-graphs-spiritually-informed-representations-relationship-between-place

Castaño-Suárez, Orus Mateo (2023) “Song Within a Sacrifice Zone,” in Uses and abuses of power in alternative spiritualities. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: Harvard Divinity School Program for the Evolution of Spirituality. Available at: https://hds.harvard.edu/publications/art-and-power-exhibition

Castaño-Suárez, Orus Mateo, Sulca, Juan, et al. (2023) Ctrl_Space – Creation & Computation 2023. Available at: https://cc23.ocaduwebspace.ca/connected-systems/ctrl-space/

Castaño-Suárez, Orus Mateo, Fiacadori Costa, V., et al. (2023) The Glow – Creation & Computation 2023. Available at: https://cc23.ocaduwebspace.ca/4-interstitial-spaces/the-glow/

Castaño-Suárez, Orus Mateo, Devi, Kunal, and Bizmark, Nastaran. (2023) Friendship Maker – Creation & Computation 2023. Available at: https://cc23.ocaduwebspace.ca/emotive-objects/team-3/

Castaño-Suárez, Orus Mateo, and Noel, Lesley-Ann. (2025) “Pluriversal Arcs of Impact” . Available at: https://rsdsymposium.org/pluriversal-arcs-of-impact/