Chia Amisola
Information
Towards a world where creation is synonymous with liberation
Artist, designer, technologist
the third world internet's love, labor, & liberation
Internet Ambient
Performing the browser,
the browser as performance
Himala (6 hour durational)
Screen Walk
Selected Works
Press
BOMB Magazine
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia
Liturgy of the Archipelago, Feelers
Escape the Algorithm
New Yorker
Artists' CV
What I'm up to – usually updated
I want to make a great big hypertextual internet epic – would you support me?
basically looking for patrons ~_~
Himala
Reinterpreting the rosary into net art. On domesticity & devotion; unfurling Marian apparitions, feminist infrastructures, and glitch as delusion.
Performance, Installation, Net Art
When We Love
A dating simulator where you date everything. On digital intimacy, proximities...
Game / Net Art
KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN!
Curating and commissioning an exhibition on Filipino internet culture & networking histories.
Exhibition / Curation
Developh
A community of practice towards softer & critical technologies in the Philippines.
Philippine Internet Archive
Ang kasaysayan ng internet ay ang kasaysayan ng tao. A live archive of Filipino internet history.
Chias.blog
My personal blog.
The Sound of Love
I heard of love in the YouTube comments section.
engine.lol
A gamemaker for tiny browser-based collage worlds, where the tool is a game in itself.
Upcoming
Archipelagic Internets Class
Developing a class for Developh on alternative, ecological ways of making, hosting, serving, and being on the internet.
Upcoming, TBD
Teaching
Chrisy Show Guest Appearance
Guest appearance on the Chrisy Show at the Museum of the Moving Image.
Upcoming, TBD
Performance
Metalabel FW 2024
Releasing with Metalabel this Fall/Winter.
Upcoming, TBD
Release
KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN...
Exhibiting KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN in the Philippines again – with more computers and fun. See you soon!
Feb 2025
Curation / Exhibition
KAKAKARAOKE MO YAN...
Upcoming karaoke-performance-lecture on singing, reclamation, exploitation, and pop. At Tai Kwun.
Feb 2025
Performance Lecture
Computer Ambiences
Ecologies out of sites, sounds, and symbiotics at Kunst Kabinett Seoul.
Dec 2024
Performance
SOLOS
Releasing scenes from websites with SOLOS.
Dec 2024
Release/Exhibition
Imagine Lecture Series with Andrea Kim
In conversation with Andrea Kim for the Imagine Lecture Series, moderated by Jamin Warren.
Nov 13 2024
Exhibition
2024
[Hypertext](Hyperlink)
Live durational performance at CCAM ISOVIST at Yale University, running until February 2024 and curated by Alvin Ashiatey.
Nov 2024
Exhibition
Average Play Time
GAME CHAT SHOP at New Uncanny in Harlem — on from October 17 to November 10th.
October 2024
Exhibition
Lavender Town
One night exhibition on the resurgence of religious practice in an age of networked technologies on October 25, New York.
October 25 2024
Exhibition
Low Resolution GIF SCreening
One-night showcase of animated GIFs to close out High Resolution, by Postmasters 5.0 & TRANSFER in New York.
October 2024
Exhibition
Himala Desktop Aftermath
A screen recording of my desktop after the Himala performance at CultureHub.
October 2024
Video
Himala
Six hour durational performance on Marian apparitions, domesticity, and the divine with five computers; a dreaming, a devotion, a delusion. New York, New York
October 18 2024
Performance
CultureHub NY Residency
Exploring Marian apparitions and the infrastructural divine for a week - with a live performance.
October 2024
Residency
BOMB Magazine Interview
Interview by Meg Miller for BOMB Magazine: on embodying the browser, poetry in the code editor, and the Filipino struggle.
October 2024
Video
Lumen Prize Moving Image Award Winner
Very honored to have won the Lumen Prize for Moving Image. ♥
October 2024
Award
Honkai Star Rail
Started playing
October 2024
Pleasure
𝕸𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈 𝕮𝖎𝖗𝖈𝖑𝖊𝖘
Studying Filipino Catholic imaginaries in Roblox as part of the Magic Circles Lab.
October 2024
Residency
HOLO Feature
Coverage of KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN restating our opening towards the internet's loss, love, labor, and liberation by Angel Martinez.
September 2024
Press
𝐼 𝑀𝒾𝓈𝓈 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎 𝒮𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝐼'𝓋𝑒 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝐻𝑒𝒶𝓇𝒹, 𝒟𝑜𝑒𝓈 𝒜𝓃𝓎𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝐹𝑒𝑒𝓁 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒮𝒶𝓂𝑒?
Screening through a window at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany from 13.09. – 31.10.2024.
September 2024
Exhibition
Guest Lecture at USC
For Maisa Imamovic
October 2024
Talk
Screening at V&A Museum
'We Are Only Moving Towards Each Other' on view at the V&A Museum in London with other Lumen Prize finalists.
September 2024
Screening
𝕸𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖈 𝕮𝖎𝖗𝖈𝖑𝖊𝖘 Studio Visit
Staged a Marian intervention within Catholic cathedrals in Roblox, discussing Filipino Catholic imaginaries.
September 2024
Studio Visit
An Archipelagic Internet
Talk + sound on KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN and the third world internet written for the 10th Gray Area Festival.
September 2024
Talk
Gray Area Festival Talk
Speaking on third world internets for the Gray Area Festival.
September 2024
Talk
CONGRATULATIONS! PAMPLONA PARK SUBDIVISION 9:30AM-8:00PM 0918 590 30 60
New piece for MoMAR collecting tarpulins from Las Piñas.
September 2024
AR
MoMAR: Root Access
Group show with Yoshi Sodeoka, taking over the MoMA building & sculpture garden.
September 2024
Gathering
Inside the Exhibit That Celebrates Filipino Internet Culture, Esquire
Coverage of KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN restating our opening towards the internet's loss, love, labor, and liberation by Angel Martinez.
September 2024
Press
KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN articulates Filipino conditions online
Coverage of KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN for Business World Online by Bronte Lacsamana.
September 2024
Press
Bad Game Jam Talk
Talk on small tools and playful prototyping for Agu Crisostomo's Bad Game Jam.
August 31 2024
Gathering
Weaving Pusô with Isola Tong
Hosting Isola for a workshop centering disappearing foodways & floating indigenous knowledge online. Part of KMY.
August 25 2024
Gathering
filipino cyberfeminisms
Presentations, readings, & a reader examinining cyberpinayism with Bianca.
August 24 2024
Gathering
KAKAKOMPYUTER OM YAN! Launch & Opening
At Space63, produced by et alt with installations & extremely online music all evening.
August 23 2024
Gathering
KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN! Installation
Pisonet and home karaoke machine setup. Bootleg DVDs, clearbooks, monobloc stools. Production by et alt.
August 2024
Installation
Set at 𝙐𝙇𝙏𝙍𝘼𝓢𝓞𝓕𝓣 ❻.⓿
Ambient norns + website + Ableton set for 𝙐𝙇𝙏𝙍𝘼𝓢𝓞𝓕𝓣 ❻.⓿ at Bombvinos Bodega.
August 22 2024
Sound
Rhizome Microgrants 2024 Jury
Jurying the Rhizome Microgrants 2024, invited by Bri Griffin. Go apply!
August 2024
Jury
UX+ Desktop Aftermath
A screen recording of my desktop after UX+.
August 2024
Video
Performance-lecture at UX+
On archipelagic internets, ambient design, and apocalypses. Custom slide-site & new text.
August 18 2024
Talk
My computer never asks me how many computers I had before
New ambient desktop performance at Gray Area in San Francisco. Come by!
July 26 2024
Performance
Internet Ambient Workshop at Gray Area
The internet is an ecology, and our sites contain its flowers, clouds, stones, & tides. An workshop on the sound of a poetic and ambient web.
July 26 2024
Workshop
Where The Tree Grows
Exhibition at Kala Art Institute.
July 19 2024
Exhibition
DATA LABELER DREAM TRANSCENDENCE PROJECT WIP
౨ৎ Teaser of a desktop performance for LEV Festival (Spain) and iMAL (Belgium).
July 26 2024
Performance
After Ambience
The Sand Institute presents a softer and slower space.
June 2024
Gathering
Config
In case you forgot, I design on the Figma prototyping team. See you there!
June 2024
Appearance
Everyone I Love
On releases and others from the people I love.
June 2024
Performance & Talk
Computer Dream Angel Girl Saint, Performance-Lecture
On girl-saints, gods, gazing, and glitches. Marian apparitions, feminine technologies, & truth.
June 19 2024
Performance & Talk
KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN Walkthrough
Artist walkthrough & karaoke night for KMY — help me drink beer and snack to leave around the space!
June 9
Karaoke Party
Artist Talk, DEMO2024
On third-world internet culture, exploitation, and hacking ourselves into visibility.
June 6 2024
Talk
KAKA-KOMPYUTER MO YAN! at DEMO2024
Showing an internet art collaboration with more than twenty Filipino artists at 161 Water Street.
June 5–20
Exhibition
Developh Dry Season
Curating & hosting programming on critical & poetic technologies with Filipino designers.
April–June 2024
Programming
Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia
no idea how i made it in
May 2024
Press
I Love Everything
New website for projects
May 2024
Personal Website
All The Birds With One Stone
Moments before a brief extinction event.
May 2024
Hypertext
Himala
On an upcoming piece on miracles, marian apparitions, divine images, truth, media, girls, saints, and transcendence.
May 2024
Preview
Living Room Light Exchange
Previewing a new piece & practice on the rosary as infrastructure; and the delusions of the divine.
May 10 2024
Gathering
Computer Ambiences (Workshop-Performance)
Turning computers into flowers, clouds, and stones in a communal making of sights & sounds on sites.
May 2024
Gathering
Bahay na Rosas (Narutomaki)
HTML-only short on cuteness, violence, the Japanese occupation of Manila, and the erasure of the Bahay na Pula.
April 2024
Short HTML Film
𝐼 𝑀𝒾𝓈𝓈 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎 𝒮𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝐼'𝓋𝑒 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝐻𝑒𝒶𝓇𝒹, 𝒟𝑜𝑒𝓈 𝒜𝓃𝓎𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝐹𝑒𝑒𝓁 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒮𝒶𝓂𝑒?
Assembled out of new/old/unfinished pieces: a story about two boys, their bodies, and sound as the medium of memory... 16:16
April 2024
Sound/Video
caught in pointers release party
Playing an ambient web / sound piece for Andrew CS' caught in pointers release party. April 6/7.
April 2024
Gathering
Networked Worlds Memo
'WHEN WE LOVE' in the Networked Worlds Memo by co-matter & WeTransfer.
March 2024
Text/Graphic
A Bedroom (A Reading)
Net-Print-Net performance of A Bedroom in Las Piñas on intertextual intimacies and hypertext futures at Kernel's launch.
March 2024
Web Performance
A Bedroom (A Print)
Net-Print adaptation of A Bedroom in Las Piñas as a choose-your-own-adventure interspersed through Kernel's Luck issue.
March 2024
Print Hypertext
HTMLfest performance
An outdoor performance-reading celebrating the launch of Last Seen Online.
March 2024
Performance
୭ 🧷 ✧ ˚. ᵎᵎ 🎀 Generator
I LOVE MY HYPERTEXT :: do you believe in blogging? :: CLICK to be wanted! CLICK to be desired!
March 2024
Generative (WIP)
Outland Art Feature
A conversation with Wade on some of my games work.
March 2024
Press
Liturgy of the Archipelago
A conversation on archipelagos, memory, and institutions written by Sharmini Aphrodite. (Thank you, Sharmini & Feelers!)
March 2024
Article
Domain Naming
An essay-site on domain naming exploring language, territory, control, identity, and imperialism as it relates to the handmade web.
Feb 2024
Essay
Naive Yearly x Are.na
Adaptations of talks from the inaugural Naive Yearly conference last August 2023.
Feb 2024
Essay
A Cyberarchaeology of Checkpoints
Ruby Justice Thelot's 'A Cyberarchaeology of Checkpoints' at Gray Area, in conversation. 6:00PM 2.21.
Feb 2024
Gathering
The Sound of Love
Collecting stories of love, loss, and longing, now with 500+ comments and a new interface.
Feb 2024
Website
Website Looking Into Itself
Feb 2024
Website
Guest Lecture, HTTPoetics @ School for Poetic Computation
Feb 2024
Lecture
Ambient Reading / Playing / Writing / Scoring
A premiere of 'A Bedroom in Las Piñas' on the Screen Walks Twitch. (Fotomuseum Winterthur and The Photographers’ Gallery London).
Jan 2024
Performance
Conversation, Outland Art's GAMES issue
Speaking on games and net art for Outland Art. (Thank you, Wade!)
Jan 2024
Conversation
Guest Lecture, Synthesis @ VCU
A remote guest lecture for seniors at VCU. (Thank you, Herdimas!)
Jan 2024
Lecture
A Bedroom in Las Piñas (Color Update)
A point-and-click escapist room consisting of vignettes from Manila.
Jan 2024
Game
Pitch Syntax issue_02: Dark Web
Due January 26. I'm doing editorial for web/interactive pieces.
Jan 2024
Pitch
chi.itch.io
Uploading and redesigning some game pages on itch.io!
Jan 2024
Games
It's Nice That Feature
I am an incoming visual trend! Words by Liz Gorny and Lucy Bourton.
Jan 2024
Press
Temporary Performance Assembly Documentation
The artist is dreaming...
Jan 2024
Documentation
(selected) works, 2023
Index and recap of the past year of making.
Jan 2024
Recap
and__hearts on Global Weirding, Sutro FM
A glitch + ambient mix for Global Weirding on Sutro FM. (58:00)
Jan 2024
Mix
e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e.com
A real-time, long-term hypertext story on a forum at the beginning / end of the internet.
Jan 2024—
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2023
A Bedroom in Las Piñas
A point-and-click escapist room consisting of vignettes from Manila.
Dec 2023
Game
Landscapes
Series of HTML Landscapes published in Syntax Magazine.
Dec 2023
Publication
୧ ‧₊˚ 🎐 ⋅୧ ‧₊˚ 🎐 ⋅⋆。°•☁️
63 YouTube embeds (color, silent). iFrame Landscape.
Dec 2023
Website
⋆𓆟⋆。˚🎣𓆝 𓆟 ⋆⭒𓆟⋆。˚𖦹𓆜✩⋆𓆞🎐⋆𓆟
42 YouTube embeds (color, silent). Shown at Gray Area. iFrame Landscape.
Dec 2023
Website
⋆。 ゚☁︎。 ⋆。 ゚☀︎。 ⋆。 ゚☁️⋅♡𓂃
100 YouTube embeds (color, silent). iFrame Landscape.
Dec 2023
Website
Syntax Mag Launch Party
Release at the Living Gallery for a magazine about the internet & culture. Dec 15, 2023.
2023
Gathering
All I Love, THING+1
Stream Chia as they create and uncreate a world. With thing.tube for THING+1.
2023
Performance
We Are Only Dreaming, Screen Walk
A desktop performance summoning popups and feedback loops for Screen Walks (Fotomuseum Winterthur and The Photographers’ Gallery London). Dec 13, 2023.
2023
Performance
Exhibition at Gray Area
Fish, femininity, and folding & unfolding of the browser. Dec 13–14, 2023.
2023
Installation
Syntax Mag
Creative direction, design, & development for a magazine about culture and the internet.
2023
Publication
A Compression of Life in Boxes
A story of memory and erasure composed entirely of iFrames. Transient videos, images, links, and sounds disconnect & decay.
Dec 2023—
Net Art (Unreleased)
stroll
A short stroll.
Dec 2023
engine.lol game
engine.lol 2.0
A gamemaker for tiny browser-based collage worlds, where the tool is a game in itself.
Dec 2023
Tool
engine.lol 2.0
A gamemaker for tiny browser-based collage worlds, where the tool is a game in itself.
Dec 2023
Tool
Crucifixion
On the third hour, Jesus was crucified.
Nov 2023
Net Art (Unreleased)
Runtime as Ritual as Religion (as Repetition)
A remote performance, a revelation, a repeating.
Nov 2023
Performance
Escolta Memory Box
Installation for Friends of Friends + Hola, Escolta's block party.
Nov 2023
Web
Temporary Performance Assembly
Performing at Southern Exposure as part of its annaul juried art program. November 18th, 6–9PM.
Nov 18 2023
Performance
Guest Lecture, Teaching as Social Practice
A remote guest lecture for Teaching as Social Practice. (Thank you, Kameelah!)
Nov 2023
Lecture
Can two things ever really touch or can we only fall apart?
Nov 2023
Net Art
Website as subject
The website is a cathedral, monument, vessel, home. A dual exhibition with yehwan song. 11.9–11.25
Nov 2023
Exhibition
All watched over by machines of loving grace
Group exhibition on love, humans, machines, and harmony. Curated by Gladys Lou for InterAccess. 11.8–12.9
Nov 2023
Exhibition
Gray Area Artist Salon
A 10-minute performative lecture & presentation on my practice. Gray Area, San Francisco. Nov 8.
Nov 8 2023
Talk
GAME / CHAT / SHOP
An endless loop of ends in a small compshop. Where does the game end? Where do we begin?
Nov 2023
Game
Runway Journal Issue #47 Launch
An endless loop of ends in a small compshop. Launch of a new game with Runway Journal at ACMI in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Nov 4, 2023.
Nov 2023
Launch
Internet Ambient Postcards & Prints
Some ephemera distributed at the Index Space performance!
Oct 2023
Performance
If you knew me would you love me?
An internet ambient performance in San Francisco, California. Hosted by Index Space at Studio 45.
Oct 26 2023
Performance
Guest Lecture, Into to Creative Web Design
An in-person guest lecture at USC... a short daytrip to LA. :) (Thank you, Q!)
Oct 2023
Lecture
Guest Lecture, Digital Design at Parsons
An in-person guest lecture for a club at Parsons. (Thank you, Graeme.)
Oct 2023
Lecture
Guest Lecture, Escape the Algorithm
An in-person guest lecture and crit at the Escape the Algorithm class at the University of Pennsylvania. (Thank you, Elan.)
Oct 2023
Lecture
Gray Area: Plural Prototypes
Work that embodies the decentralized web for this year's Gray Area Festival.
Oct 19 2023
Exhibition
Martial Law Index
The Martial Law Index is a curation of resources and materials concerning the Dictator Ferdinand Marcos' rule and the 1972—1981 martial law period.
Oct 2023
Archive
Bantayog ng mga Bayani
Ang Bantayog on the Bantayog ng mga Bayani's website. (Thank you Karl Ramirez & May Rodriguez.)
Oct 2023
Press
‘Ang Bantayog’ writeup
On Chias.blog
Sep 2023
Release Notes
‘Ang Bantayog’ website hopes to rethink how we remember Martial Law, Rappler
"Dwelling on the web itself means continuously losing access to one’s own past."
Sep 2023
Press
Ang Bantayog
"The Monument" can never be a true memorial. A recollection for the victims of the Martial Law regime.
Sep 2023
Website
Meet NEW INC's 2023-24 Art & Code Track Members
Rhizome
Sep 2023
Press
NEW INC Art & Code
at the ✨ intersection of art & technology ✨
Sep 2023
Press
chias.website
A new garden
Sep 2023
Website
chias.world
Investigations on the site of the web(site) and tending on the internet. For Welcome to my Homepage...
July–Aug 2023
Residency
On domain naming
Naming as placemaking through the domain name's in identity, territorialization, & colonialism.
Aug 2023
Research
Internet Ambient at 98B COLLABoratory
(Escolta, Philippines)
Aug 2023
Performance
Internet Ambient at Keepers
(Makati, Philippines)
Aug 2023
Performance
Måske er internettet ikke helt ad HTML til?, Atlas Mag
I get roasted but also sound very political on a Danish publication
Aug 2023
Press
Pacification, CD Graphic
Aug 2023
Graphic
Pacification, NTS Supporter Radio
Indie rock & ambient selection for NTS 'On The Road'
Aug 2023
Mix
If you knew me would you love me?
The browser as performance, a performance of the browser at panke.gallery (Berlin, Germany)
Aug 2023
Performance
Space10 Summer Gathering DJ Set
A born-internet DJ set for Naive Yearly x Space 10's afterparty. With Kurt Kolev.
Aug 2023
Audio
Naive Yearly
Speaking on naming/domain names, territorialization, colonialism, and space (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Aug 2023
Talk
FWBFest Scholar
Heading to the woods of southern California with my friends with benefits and Charli XCX
Aug 2023
Gathering
Internet Ambient Tour
A tour poster for my single-entry, very short Europe Summer Tour
August 2023
Tour
Welcome to My Homepage Residency
Exploring techno-optimism and the possibilities of love online with the Museum of Human Achievement.
July 2023
Residency
Causal Islands Podcast
Recapping the inaugural Causal Islands conference!
July 2023
Podcast
A Website Can Be A Poem (A Poem Can Be A Website)
An interview with Anna of Usurpator Mag on placemaking, internet structures, attending...
July 2023
Podcast / Interview
The Sound of Love Books
Selling two 128-page artist books + postcards leftover from the Sound of Love's anniversary!
July 2023
Goods
98B ESC Residency
Exploring spatial negotiations and internet history with 98B COLLABoratory.
July 2023
Residency
The web is a place where people gathered
A conversation with Elan Kiderman Ullendorff on archival and self-preservation
July 2023
Interview
Why aren't there more websites about love?
A conversation with Elan Kiderman Ullendorff on love as making
June 2023
Interview
&bient
A two hour ambient mix for Manila Community Radio.
June 2023
Mix
&bient graphics
A tiny website
June 2023
Graphic
Reading a Poetic Web
An emergent performance at the DWeb Camp
June 2023
Gathering
DWeb Camp Fellow
Heading to the woods of northern California to explore the internet
June 2023
Gathering
Prototyping @ Figma's Config
Speaking with my team on everything prototyping at Figma's Config.
June 2023
Talk
CYBERFEMINISM INDEX
Gathering around Mindy Seu's anti-canon at the Lab on 6/17 with Mindy Seu, Viv Qiu, Victoria Shen, and Molly Turner.
June 2023
Gathering
Sheet Sites Tutorial
A recorded walkthrough of the Sheet Sites workshop.
June 2023
Tutorial
Sheet Sites
Learn how to make websites from spreadsheets with me, inspired by SFPC's Solidarity Infrastructures.
June 2023
Workshop
All I Love
A naming of a world
June 2023
Website
Citations
(Inexhaustive)
June 2023
Index
html.energy SF
Imbued with HTML Energy, make WWWs (websites) with us at Alamo Square Park on June 3rd.
June 2023
Gathering
Developh Websites
New identities (again) for Developh, Kakakompyuter Mo Yan, and the Philippine Internet Archive.
May 2023
Website
KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN! Open Call
Due July 1st, send us your work!
May 2023
Open Call
Inspect Elements
A reading with contributors of the HTML Review, performing 'Concrete Form'.
May 2023
Reading
Sound Room
A small multiplayer sound tool tucked inside the Ambient Institute.
May 2023
Sound Website
engine.lol text
A mobile-friendly, text-only edition of engine.lol. (Initial release)
May 2023
engine.lol variant
chia.pics, may 2023
A small update...
May 2023
Pics
WordHack @ Wonderville
Performing at WordHack on May 18th at Wonderville, Brooklyn.
May 2023
Performance
Now playing
Lucy Liyou's Dog Dreams and the Boiler Room x Manila Community Radio sets
Spotify, Soundcloud
Ina
May 2023
engine.lol game
Online publications bridging poetry & code, Frieze
Alongside friends, peers, influences, & mentors on an article highlighting the HTML Review, Crawlspace, & others.
May 2023
Press
Developh 2023 Website
Small identities for the ever-evolving community of critical practice & technology.
May 2023
Website
Soft Narratives
Softer networks. panke.gallery + KUNSTSURFER, Berlin + Online.
May 2023
Exhibition
Swords and Kisses
Online exhibition at Der Vierte Raum, designed + developed + curated by Yifan He.
Apr 2023
Exhibition
Now Play This Conversation
A conversation on love online and We Are Only Moving Towards Each Other
Apr 2023
Conversation
Figma Early Career Week
Speaking with other Figma new grad designers!
Apr 2023
Talk
Creation Myths of Computing Site
Speaking at Causal Islands on narrative, power, authorship, and faith. 4.26.
Apr 2023
Talk
Creation Myths of Computing
Speaking at Causal Islands on narrative, power, authorship, and faith. 4.26.
Apr 2023
Talk
SFPC Meet the Participants
Meet me
Apr 2023
Meeting
Sari Sari Sari Sari
A folk index of manually curated sari-sari stores across the Philippines.
Apr 2023
Website
ANTEFLING 2023
With Alice Longyu Gao, Tony Velour, Geese, and Qween Kong.
Apr 2023
Website
Bisita (2023)
A revisitation of Bisita, a browser-based tour originally made in 2021.
Apr 2023
Website
Now Play This
Exhibiting at a festival celebrating experimental game design and love. Somerset House (London), 4.1-9.
Apr 2023
Exhibit
Concrete Form
An interactive form poem epic and study of identity, repetition, naming. For The HTML Review's Sping 2023 issue.
Apr 2023
Website
Dream
To gather all the people I love in one place and build an internet that might be that place
Snake in Figma
Happy April Fun Day
Apr 2023
Product
Rainy Day
Open your umbrella...
Mar 2023
Website
Sticky Scrolling in Figma
Yahoo!
Mar 2023
Product
Sights & Sounds
For Common Discourse
Mar 2023
Interview
Chat room for gamers & more
A panel on fictions and games for Swords and Kisses
Mar 2023
Panel
Ambient Sites & Sights
A workshop for the Processing Creative Coding Festival
Mar 2023
Workshop
Website Still Life
Golden Gate Park Tulips
Mar 2023
Website
Swords and Kisses
On queer/trans/diasporic visions of fantas & worlding. Staffordshire St (London), 3.23-26.
Mar 2023
Exhibit
Las historias íntimas que esconden los comentarios de YouTube, El País
Interviewed for my love of YouTube comments and thesoundof.love on El País.
Mar 2023
Press
Cloudwatch
Cloud in bio
Mar 2023
Website
Let me mentor you
A mentorship offer to Filipino students
Mar 2023
Offer
From Jack to Juke Flyer
An event hosted by Lonnie Taylor. For Sutro.FM.
Feb 2023
Poster
Videos v2
My first big feature release at Figma!
Feb 2023
Product
Ambient at Koffee
A rainy evening ambient show played with Hailey on 2.17.
Feb 2023
Manifesto
Guest Lecture at Software for People
Interactive Design and the Internet at Yale. Thank you Rosa ♡
Feb 2023
Talk
Manifesto for (Web)Site-Specific Art
Positing websites as worlds, and we as worldmakers.
Feb 2023
Manifesto
UK Rave Comments
128 pages of 5.5x5.5" spiral-bound comments left on Jungle, Acid, DNB YouTube videos.
Feb 2023
Zine
The Sound of Love
128 pages of 5.5x5.5" spiral-bound comments left on assorted YouTube videos.
Feb 2023
Zine
The Promise of Technology is the Promise of People
Jan 2023
Text
BAD INTERNET
An online gallery for browser-based work on an unreliable server, making form of the worst of the web.
Jan 2023
Gallery (Coming Soon)
Cloudwatching
A gathering and naming at day as the clouds roll on by. A small social network.
Jan 2023
Alt Social Network
We are only moving towards each other
A dream sequence. A concrete browser poem. 15,000 words.
Jan 2023
Net Art
If I sow all my words, who will reap them?
A slow and seedy social network.
Jan 2023
Website
Developh Library
Curating texts on critical tech for the Philippines. Donate books!
Jan 2023
Library
YouTube
I just upload websites.
Jan 2023
Social Media
chias.website
A new Chia center.
Jan 2023
Website
Stargazing
We are all under the same stars at night.
Part of when we love.
Jan 2023
Alt Social Network
2022
chia.pics wrapped
April — December (-ish)
Dec 2022
Website
chia.pics vol 1
A collection. 6x4 spiral bound
Dec 2022
Zine
smiley
A tiny emoticon game. =)
Dec 2022
Website
I love it when you (auto)
love me too
Dec 2022
Website
Tender Websites
Dec 2022
Website (WIP)
a (length) hike
Part of when we love.
Dec 2022
Net Art (Upcoming)
when we love
A browser-based dating sim.
Dec 2022
Net Art (WIP)
OFFLINE/ONLINE
An autobiographical website
Dec 2022
Net Art (Upcoming)
autocomplete
Being a teenage girl is impossible
Dec 2022
Website (WIP)
engine.lol alpha 1.2
Featuring publishing, titles, effects, new layout, and new sounds.
Dec 2022
Tool
engine.lol mobile
Dec 2022
Tool
Holiday Domain Gift Guide
Dec 2022
Writing
There is an internet that is mine and I would like you to live in it with me
Dec 2022
Writing
When I blog about love
From posts over the years.
Dec 2022
Video
naming ambient art
Dec 2022
Writing
Philippine Design Library
Texts on the Filipino design vernacular
Dec 2022
Curation
Philippine Design Redesign
On the identity of the Filipino designer. With Lite mode!
Dec 2022
Website
Write Yourself In
A blog about blogging.
Dec 2022
Workshop
Things to think about when blogging
Dec 2022
Prompts
Developh
A renewal of the Developh website & mission.
Nov 2022
Website, Manifesto
Turning YouTube Comments Into Art, New Yorker
Feature on thesoundof.love
Nov 2022
Press
Please Ignore Us
An invitation to listen to ambient music at Gather East Rock—while ignoring the performers
Nov 2022
Ambient Performance
Please Ignore Us (Audio)
Norns + cassette + field recordings + voice memo samples from conversations in New Haven
Nov 2022
Ambient
Forum Forum
A forum for posting.
Nov 2022
Forum
Maybe Radio
A radio.
Oct 2022
Radio
UK Rave Comments
128 page wirebound zine of comments from acid, jungle, d&b videos. Pre-order now.
Oct 2022
Zine
Me & Abortionism
32 page zine on the underground market of Philippine abortion forums, reworked. Pre-order now.
Oct 2022
Zine
An Idea Generator (For A Website)
Workshop for Developh and full class site with exercises, resources, and more
Oct 2022
Workshop
Making a Poetic Web(site)
Workshop for Developh and full class site with exercises, resources, and more
Oct 2022
Workshop
A Machine Helps Me Write A Poem About Fire
Published with the Yale Literary Magazine, Vol 35 Ed 2
Oct 2022
Poetry
Elegy
Short confessionals on technology and ritual
Oct 2022
Newsletter Stories
Things I want to do
Particularly ones you can help me with
Oct 2022
Blog
On Ceilings
A life update
Oct 2022
Blog
Figma
I started designing Prototyping at Figma
Sep 2022
Work
Moved to San Francisco
Sep 2022
Life Event
dontlistentoth.is
A party series at Yale
Sep 2022
Event
MILK.PLACE POSTERS
A couple dozen new posters for MILK.PLACE.
Sep 2022
Posters
MILK.PLACE
Dozens of prints of media from my walls to yours. Online store coming soon
Sep 2022
Store
Bluish Live at College Street Music Hall (Full)
makes me so crazy though i can't say why
Aug 2022
Recording
Ambient Radio Test
Aug 2022
Audio (with Maybe)
Yale Fur Fest
Aug 2022
Poster
WW(W)
Website Website (Website)
Aug 2022
WIP
Everything Perfect Is Already Here
Aug 2022
Poster
220814_010 Night Sounds.WAV
A chorus of insects, back against a dock.
Aug 2022
Field Recording
maybe.press
A Label focusing on small releases of experimental sound, art, & gathering
Aug 2022
Community
Cloudwatching Log 3
Aug 2022
Graphic
chia.neocities.org
A Directory
Aug 2022
Website
philippine.design
Launching a design research initiative
Aug 2022
Research
ambient 4 graveyards
Aug 2022
Mix
my 39 minute piss
An ambient mix done in my bathroom
Aug 2022
Mix
Philippine Cassette Archive
Preserving Pinoy tape culture, archival by me
Aug 2022
Website Archive
Cloudwatching Log 2
July 2022
Graphic
Cloudwatching Log 1
July 2022
Graphic
How DIY Archiving Disrupts Information Disorder
Philippine Collegian
Jun 2022
Press
Sudler Prize
Yale University
May 2022
Press
I graduated from Yale
Yay
May 2022
Life Event
Martial Law Index
DIY archival in response to the Marcos regime's censorship, archival by me
May 2022
Website
chia.pics
A (mostly) digicam collection of personal photos
May 2022
Website
West Haven Waves 220520_0085.wav
Water laps across rocks, tides come and go.
May 2022
Field Recording
5-21-2022
A day in West Haven.
May 2022
Video Log
I love it when you (slider)
love me too
May 2022
Website
engine.lol
A gamemaker that's a game in itself; a browser-based tiny tool to make and publish grid-like collage stories. My Yale undergraduate thesis advised by Rosa McElheny.
Apr 2022
Tool
The (Partial) Encyclopedia and Travelogue to Etherest
Paracosm shit
Apr 2022
Artists' Book
Cloudy.Country
Emailing you pics of clouds. On temporary hiatus!
Apr 2022
Newsletter
Blind Faith
Apr 2022
Game
me and engine
Apr 2022
Game
engine.lol OST
Cassette (ed of 15) and CD (ed of 20) run of the ambient tracks on engine.lol. Hand-dubbed.
Apr 2022
Audio
engine.lol Installation
My desk in an alternate universe.
Apr 2022
Exhibit
Printmaking
Design at Yale invites you to an afternoon of...
For Design at Yale.
Apr 2022
Poster
Biyahe
An ode to the Filipino commute.
Apr 2022
Mix
Creative Web Coding Poster
A workshop with 3 exercises and 3 attendees. For Design at Yale.
Apr 2022
Workshop
Yale Jazzfest
With Kevin Chen.
Apr 2022
Branding
Ako at Si Pedro
"Kinukwento ni mama ang mito ni Pedro Calungsod."
Apr 2022
Interactive Fiction
Kleiner Perkins Fellow
With Figma.
Mar 2022
Fellowship
if you knew me would you love me?
A collection and a prompt.
Mar 2022
Website
Sample Pack Workshop
Sample pack making.
For the Open Music Initiative.
Mar 2022
Poster
(RIP) Bad Internet
A dead music blog at Yale.
Feb 2022
Website
C'mon C'mon
For a WYBC x A24 screening.
Feb 2022
Graphic
The Sound of Love
I heard of love in the YouTube comments section.
Feb 2022
Website
Valentine's Day Poem
Chia likes to think about love.
Feb 2022
Website
Willie Commercial Calendar
Potato Corner and Willie Revillame.
Jan 2022
Workshop
me, my pen, & my neural net
A Digital Diary.
Jan 2022
Website
Theophany
The reason you would create anything is because you love it enough to see it exist.
Jan 2022
Nonfiction
Recap
2022
Blog Post
2021
I love it when you
love me too
Dec 2021
Website
Design is Fantasy
A talk on imagination, the speculative, and fantasy for the UX+ Conference
Sep 2021
Talk
Worlding A New Philippines
Fandom, making, creatorhood.
Oct 2021
Talk
Ex-Silicon Valley means nothing.
Blind faith in Western “prestige signals” serves exploiters, not nation-builders.
Apr 2021
Writing
Developh Camp
A fellowship for Filipino technologists supported by the Processing Foundation. With Bianca Aguilar & Nicole Datlangin.
2021
Gathering
Processing Foundation Fellow
Mentored by Dorothy Santos.
2021
Fellowship
Punishing of the Philippines
On digital extremism and the global south.
2021
Website Writing
A Website Is A World
Borders, mythologies, emergence.
2021
Website Writing
Everyday I
An exercise in asking.
Dec 2021
Website
Harvard—Yale Show
Nov 2021
Poster
chias.blog
New domain
2021
Blog
If I fall into a very dense cloud, can I die?
A very shitty cloud comic.
Nov 2021
Comic
All the funerals for my past selves
On not knowing myself.
Nov 2021
Zine
Bisita
A recollection of devotion & routine in the only Catholic-majority country in Asia.
2021
Net Art
Kumu
15 months of design for the Philippines' #1 social app
2021
Product
Developh Website
2021
Website
JPEGMAFIA — LP!
Nov 2021
Poster
Timekeeper
A multiplayer decremental game.
2021
Idle Game
𓆝.° 。˚𓆛˚。 °.𓆞
2021
Net Art
Proximities
Can you feel the internet?
2021
Chrome Extension
Caroline Polachek – Parachute
Oct 2021
Poster
The Legacy of NingguangPlayToyy
A live reading.
2021
Performance
Pyro Is Not Passion
A Genshin Impact take.
2021
Extensive Anime Essay
Hu Tao Analysis
An ambitious pre-release take.
2021
Extensive Anime Essay
Getting Started with IF
Apr 2021
Workshop
Khaenri'ah Lore Project
Cultural exploration through Fandom & Genshin Impact.
2021
Community
Spotify
A summer with Spotify's design systems team.
Internship
In Threes
A self-indulgent collection of introductory lists
2021
Website
Strawberry Jam
Oct 2021
Poster
2020
Adobe Design Circle Scholar
2020
Scholarship
Armistice
Experiments in poetic form on the web.
2020
Interactive Fiction
House
After Orteil's nested, a universe explorer in sound. Field recordings & rips.
2020
Net Art
Gay Girl Prays For A Gun
My religion is on my birth certificate. My baptism was the event of the century.
2020
Interactive Fiction
OGH ENDERDRAGON FIGHT 1v11 DEATHMATCH
2020
Minecraft
Festival Website
Featuring an Art Market, livestream Stage (that I also managed), and a list of beneficiaries.
2020
Website
Festival
A 12-hour online event with live acts & vendors completely for charity.
2020
Gathering
Enjambment, Existence
Love to slow cinema and video poetry
2020
Essay
Chia's Ultimate Videoke
For a hackathon.
2020
Website
Microgames
2020
Workshop Teaching
Cause.ph
A directory of pro-bono offers and funds through COVID-19.
2020
Website
Dear Student
Visual novel prototype on the Filipino student experience during COVID-19.
2020
Visual Novel
Teleport
A video-first fashion social network.
2020
Internship
Works of Heart
A Filipino design studio.
2020
Internship
Intern.ph
A then-database for PH internships. Also did 50+ free resume reviews.
2020
Website
2019
Iboto.ph
Uplifting progressive politicals to the masses during the 2019 midterms. Reached millions. Led team of 25+.
2019
Website
Collab Website
Designed the brand and site for Developh's incubator program.
2019
Website
Collab
2019
Branding
Round
All in life must come round. On collective memory and mapping.
2019
Website
noob systems
An interferable stream of insecure CCTV cameras.
2019
Sound Art Website
Minecraft Rage Compilation
Performed in front of a montage of Minecraft deaths, I slam coke bottles and destroy a mechanical keyboard.
2019
Performance Art
Design at Yale
(Re-)founded Yale's undergraduate design community.
2019
Community
Yale Women's Center
Design and community at Yale's women center for 3 years.
2019
Community
Statement
2019
Manifesto
Rappler
Design & development at Rappler. But not a lot.
2019
Internship
Older
Fifteen
2018
Net Art
Everything not saved will be lost
2018
Net Art
Me and abortionism
On Filipino abortion forums
2018
Zine
Speaking @ GHC
On the keynote for the Student of Vision Award.
2018
Award
Lasallian Hearts Day
2018
Net Art
Mental Health Hacks Website
Site and showcase.
2017
Website
Mental Health Hacks
Organized a remote mental health "creation" hackathon with 100+ participants.
2017
Gathering
Mental Health Hacks
2017
Branding & Poster
DevSociety Website
Developh's old site.
2017
Website
Edukasyon.ph
I begged to work here as my first in-person internship and it was a daily 2 hour commute.
2017
Internship
DevEd
Developh's educational zines.
2017
Writing Print
Exchange
2017
Interactive Fiction
Love Always
A site to submit anon confessions around Valentine's Day, two years in a row.
2017
Website
The Day After
2017
Interactive Fiction
Generic Dating Sim
2017
Flash Game
Rogue One Screening
2016
Poster
Developh
Founded a community for Filipino technologists.
2016
Community
Nirvana
2016
Poster
Fall Out Boy Song Searcher
2016
Website
forgive
2016
Media
Behind the Sea
2016
Website
chiaski.com
2016
Website
blog.chiaski.com
Now chias.blog
2016
Blog
Flight Rising EDM Signature
2015
Graphic
IA Forum Signature
2015
Graphic
??? Website
2015
Website
KuzuPeko Network
2014
Website
Dangan Ronpa Ships Network
2014
Website
Roblox Adventures! Driveblox Unlimited Classic
2013
Video
Chia's Anti-Rage Project
2013
Poster
Reviewers
I made a website to host 'reviewers' for school and updated it at an ungodly pace. I was too good
2013
Website
luxidity.haneuri.net
2013
Website
Super Dangan Ronpa 2 Cursors
2013
Resource
Cirrumilus
2012
Website
Still Alive – Portal Lyric Video
2012
Video
The DerpGames Trailer 1
2012
Video
Sky Burst
2011
Website
Web Group
In 2011 I started a 'Webmasters' club, taught people HTML/CSS, and made us all badges.
2010
Website
color dash
2010
Website
Pokemon Scarlet
RPG Maker XP Pokemon Fangame.
2010
Game
destinyzbond.webs.com
My first self-coded layout.
2010
Website
belovedhearts.webs.com
2009
Website
Coming Soon...
This is a very inexhaustive index, if you'd believe it!