Heidi Valda is a Bolivian digital artisan and interdisciplinary artist based between Barcelona and La Paz Bolivia. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of art, technology, light, sound, and interaction, combining fabrication processes, electronics, creative coding, moving image, and the construction of responsive environments. Through an experimental and material-driven approach, she understands technology not merely as a tool, but as a living medium for dialogue, exploration, and speculation.
Her work investigates perception, altered states of reality, the behavior of complex systems, and the relationships between organisms, machines, and interactive environments. Through immersive installations, kinetic sculptures, participatory experiences, and audiovisual systems, she develops ecosystems where light, movement, error, and interaction become catalysts for new forms of experience.
As a digital artisan, she moves fluidly between the workshop and the laboratory, combining manual and technological processes. Electronic circuits, sensors, mechanical structures, creative programming, projection, sound, and digital fabrication are integral components of a hybrid language that seeks to expand the poetic potential of technology.
Her recent projects include INSANIA, an interactive light and sound installation selected for Barcelona Producció and presented at La Capella (Barcelona, 2025); EXO HIVE, an investigation into collective behavior and emergent systems; MEDUSA, an exploration of artificial luminous organisms, sofrobotics; and a series of participatory works and public art installations developed across Europe and Latin America.
She has presented her work in platforms dedicated to contemporary art, digital culture, and creative technologies, including Sónar+D, MUTEK.ES, Poblenou Open Night, and various international cultural institutions. In parallel, she develops an ongoing practice as VJ HEIDACRAFT, creating real-time visuals for festivals, performance spaces, and clubs, while maintaining a long-term residency at INPUT High Fidelity Dance Club in Barcelona.
She holds a Master's Degree in 3D Animation from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a Master's Degree in Audiovisual Innovation and Interactive Environments from BAU, College of Arts and Design Barcelona. Her practice inhabits the space between contemporary art, technological research, and craftsmanship, understanding creation as a process of continuous experimentation in which the digital and the physical constantly transform one another.
THE EYE DOES NOT SEE WHAT IT DOES NOT KNOW