Constanza Piña Pardo – Corazón de Robota
is a Chilean sound artist based in Berlin, with an academic background in contemporary dance and media arts. Her work is grounded in electronic experimentation and the exploration of noise as a sonic, political, cultural, and spiritual phenomenon.
Her projects include sound installations, performances, and concerts, as well as sound design for dance, experimental music programming, and sound laboratories.
Active in the underground experimental music scene since 2010, she exclusively uses self-built DIY synthesizers housed in heart-shaped chocolate boxes.
Her fully analog stage setup includes oscillators, sequencers, filters, distortions, circuit-bent drum machines, antennas, electromagnetic, field amplifiers, and experimental radios. She explores the field of audible and inaudible frequencies, psycho-physical perceptions of sound, and the rhythmic dimensions of noise.
Her work is well-known throughout Latin America and has been presented internationally at venues such as Sonar+D (Spain), ZKM and HKW (Germany), Ljubljana Maker Faire (Slovenia), Museum of Latin American Art (USA), Perte de Signal, Studio XX, and Eastern Bloc (Canada), Modular Night Seattle (USA), Zhejiang Art Museum (China), and C-LAB (Taiwan), among others.
She was the founder of the Cyborgrrrls Technofeminist Meeting in Mexico City (2017–2020) and the organizer of Tiny Noise concert series at Nowhereland Tattoo Studio Berlin; she is currently a commissioned artist by instruments inventors initiative (iii) in Den Haag.
Guest Professor and Visiting Artist
Postdigital Lutherie Master ‘s Programme, Kunstuniversität Linz (Austria).
Sonic Playground at Raumlabor; a collaboration between UdK and HZT hosted at Uferstudios Berlin.
DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam (Netherlands).
UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico).
Sonic Cyberfeminism at Humboldt University, Berlin.
Master in Creative Coding at BAU, Barcelona.
Media Design Practices at ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA.
Digital + Media Graduate Studio Seminar, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
DXARTS, University of Washington (USA).
Études for Live-Electronics (EFLE), University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Austria).
Publications & Citations
Cyberfeminism Index by Mindy Seu (Cyborgrrrls collection).
Space Feminisms: People, Planets, Power (Part Five: Art Gallery 5.9), Constanza Piña: Khipu // Electrotextile Pre-Hispanic Computer.
Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking (Third Edition) by Nicolas Collins, p. 402.
Speculative Sound Synthesis, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and Programme for Arts-based Research (PEEK) – AR 713-G. Guest contribution: Constanza Piña Pardo:Talking Knots – Oracle Reading of a Khipu | A Sonic Performance & Instrument Development.
Distinctions
Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica 2020 (Interactive Art +) for “Khipu // Pre-Hispanic Electrotextile Computer.
Media & Releases
Cassette: Infinitud Oceánica (Zona Watusa)
Radio Release: Transmission Ecologies Ep.12 Onassis Stegi Radio