Chilean artist based in Berlin, Constanza Piña is partaking artist-in-residence program in Radiona during May/June 2025. Her residence title is THE HEART IS AN OSCILLATOR | DIY love synths and electronic anarchy.
The Heart is an Oscillator” is a Corazón de Robota residency at Radiona focused on collecting and documenting recent electronic experiments. The goal is to open the heart source of the electronics and make resources available to the noise community.
The residency aims to develop a series of educational DIY synthesizer kits that will include schematics and PCB designs, lists of accessible material kits, step-by-step and assembly tutorials to create comprehensive guides that empower anyone to build their own instruments for noise generation.
Additionally, Corazón de Robota will offer a public workshop showcasing a new device created during the residency. In this workshop, the entire development process will be shared, from conceptualisation to final build, providing a practical and educational experience for all attendees.
Constanza Piña aka Corazón de Robota is a sound electronic artist and independent educator originally from Curicó, Chile. 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.
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)she exclusively uses her self-built DIY synthesizers to explore the field of audible and inaudible frequencies, the psycho-physical perceptions of sound, and the rhythmic dimensions of noise.
One of her standout projects, “Khipu | Pre-Electrotextile Hispanic Computer,” was awarded at the Ars Electronica Prix 2020 and reimagines Andean knowledge systems through a science fiction lens. It’s all about reclaiming and validating knowledge that’s often sidelined by mainstream science.Constanza’s work has been exhibited around the world—from MOLAA in Los Angeles to ZKM in Germany, Sonar+D in Spain, FILE in Brazil, and at museums and cultural spaces across Latin America, Europe, Asia, and North America.
She also founded Cyborgrrrls (@cyborgrrrls), a technofeminist meeting focused on building feminist and subversive tech spaces. Today, she works independently as an artist and educator through her project Non Binary Electronic Berlin.
Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
City of Zagreb
Kultura Nova Foundation