Constanza Piña

Curicó, 1984

Sound artist, researcher and independent educator. Her work is based on electronic experimentation, open source technologies, DIY philosophy and techno feminist social practices. She explores noise as a sonic, political, cultural and spiritual phenomenon. She reflects on the role of machines in our culture and the human/non-human-technological integration, questioning the academy, capitalism and heteropatriarchy as opposition to open knowledge, autonomy and enhancement of technical manual labor. Interested in recycling, hardware hacking, soft-circuits, DIY antennas, handicrafts synths, ancestral technologies, and electronic wizardry, Constanza is active in the underground music scene since 2010 under the pseudonym Corazón de Robota (She-Robot Heart) Using DIY synthesizers she builds herself, she explores the field of audible and inaudible frequencies, psycho-physical perceptions of sound and the rhythmic dimensions of noise. Since 2013, she has been researching on andean ancestral computing systems developing the piece Khipu // Electrotextile Pre-Hispanic Computer, awarded with honorable mention at Ars Electronica Prix 2020. Her work has been part of international festivals and spaces throughout Latin America, Europe, US, Canada and Asia. Founder of Cyborgrrrls Technofeminist meeting [Mexico City 2017-2022], Constanza contributes to the creation of non- institutional spaces based on mutual care, collective pleasure and technological subversion. She currently teaches DIY electronics in her school-project Non Binary Electronic Berlin.