In each chapter, in conversation between the most remarkable artists from Latin-America and Latinxs in the US, and our MOLAA Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga, we place the focus on a series or specific artwork which requires a close inspection and deliberate process of contemplation, and exploration; delving into the ideas surrounding the creation of the works, their sources of research and inspiration, in an effort to immerse ourselves in the world of the artists. This special edition of the MOLAA Zoom Project series focuses on the PST Art and Science Exhibition: Arteônica: Art, Science, and Technology in Latin America today.
Constanza Piña
Constanza Piña (Curicó, Chile, 1984) Artist, researcher and educator, focused on electronic and sound experimentation, open source technologies, DIY philosophy and techno feminist social practices. Her work explores noise as a phenomenon that encompasses sound, social, cultural, political and spiritual dimensions. Her practice blends contemporary technologies with ancient techniques through speculative narratives.
She creates analog synthesizers, textile antennas, and experimental EMF amplifiers. From a pseudoscientific perspective, Constanza develops the concept of electronic witchcraft, seeing electronics as a bridge to connect the physical world with intangible energy from multiple spectral fields.
Her work includes installations, performances, concerts, as well as collaborations, workshops, event organization and the creation of archives.
She has held exhibitions, concerts, workshops, and talks throughout Latin America, Europe, the United States, Canada, and Asia.
Since 2013, she has been researching on prehispanic ancestral computing systems, materialized in the piece “Khipu // Pre-Hispanic Electrotextile Computer,” awarded at Ars Electronica Prix 2020. This research fuses speculation and Andean science fiction to vindicate ancestral knowledge underrated by hegemonic scientific sources.
Active in the underground experimental music scene since 2010 under the pseudonym Corazón de Robota, using only DIY synthesizers that she creates and builds herself, she explores the field of audible and inaudible frequencies, psycho-physical perceptions of sound and the rhythmic dimensions of noise.
Founder of the Technofeminist meeting Cyborgrrrls (Mexico City 2017-2024), Constanza contributes to the creation of non- institutional spaces based on mutual care, collective pleasure and technological subversion. She currently works as an independent artist and teaches at her project/school Non Binary Electronic Berlin.
https://corazonderobota.art/
