Chia Amisola
Internet / ambient artist towards radical worlds where creation is synonymous with liberation
Philippine Internet Archive
Ang kasaysayan ng internet ay ang kasaysayan ng tao.
Jan 2023—
Research / Archive (Ongoing)
Developh
A community of practice towards softer & critical technologies in the Philippines.
2016—
Community (Ongoing)
When We Love
A browser epic all about when we love. A study of digital intimacy, proximity, and love online/offline in many experiences.
2023—
Website / Game (Ongoing)
Ambient Institute
A space gathering resources, talks, teachings, and dispatches from my teaching practice.
May 2023—
Website
engine.lol
A gamemaker for tiny browser-based collage worlds, where the tool is a game in itself.
2022—
Tool
Upcoming
KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN!
Artistic interventions on Filipino internet culture & networking histories. The Wrong + Manila.
2023
Exhibition (Upcoming)
Naive Yearly
Speaking at Kristoffer's Naive Yearly, a room for the quiet, odd, & poetic web in Denmark this August 11th. (I will be there in-person!)
Aug 2023 (Upcoming)
Talk
Ambient Institute Tour
You are cordially invited to a tour of the internet's one and only Ambient Institute.
June 2023 (Upcoming)
Tour
DWeb Camp 2023
Heading to the woods of northern California
June 2023 (Upcoming)
Camp
Prototyping @ Figma's Config
Speaking with my team on everything prototyping at Figma's Config.
June 2023 (Upcoming)
Talk
THING+1
Stream Chia as they create and uncreate a world.
June 2023 (Upcoming)
Performance
Spreadsheet Sites
Learn how to make websites from spreadsheets with me, inspired by SFPC's Solidarity Infrastructures.
June 2023 (Upcoming)
Workshop
2023
All I Love
A naming of a world
June 2023
Upcoming
Citations
(Inexhaustive)
June 2023–
Index
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 version
A mobile-friendly, text-only edition of engine.lol
May 2023
engine.lol variant (Upcoming)
chia.pics, may 2023
A small update...
May 2023
Pics
WordHack @ Wonderville
Performing at WordHack on May 18th at Wonderville, Brooklyn.
May 2023
Performance
Interests
Self-preservation → communal preservation, worlds, labor, infrastructure, memory, tools, field recording, websites, durational art, ritual, devotion, love
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
Gathering
Poeticize
No one ever asks the poets "tabs or spaces?" or the programmer "how would I recite this?"
Jan 2023
Extension (Upcoming)
We are only moving towards each other
A dream sequence. A concrete browser poem.
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
RAVE.EMAIL
Mailing list mixes.
Jan 2023
Newsletter/Mixes (Upcoming)
YouTube
I just upload websites.
Jan 2023
Social Media
What is the sound of a website?
For Index Radio.
Jan 2023
Radio (Upcoming)
chias.website
A new Chia center.
Jan 2023
Website
Gazing
We are all under the same stars at night.
Part of when we love.
Jan 2023
Website
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. Releasing 2023.
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
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
Practice
Mostly websites, creative & experimental tooling, and gathering. Lately also sound, ambience, noise, analog technologies...
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
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
Chia's Ultimate Videoke
For a hackathon.
2020
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!