Chia Amisola (b. 2000, Manila) is an artist and technologist devoted to the internet’s ambiences and its loss, love, labor, and liberation. Their games, performances, and websites take interest in the intimacies of infrastructures, the labor of tools, and the poetics of machines from the domestic to the divine. They’ve organized Developh towards poetic technologies in the Philippines since 2016. They are based between San Francisco and Manila.

With practice dating back to 2006, including writing & software (such as gamemaking tools as games), digital intimacy ( whenwe.love), placemaking & territories (their manifesto, thesoundof.love, on domain naming), religion & ritual (Visita), folk archival (Philippine Internet Archive), teaching & organizing (including pro-bono organizing 100+ events across 7+ years of programming with Developh), artifacts & performances (the performance of the browser, the browser as performance), amongst others.

They've exhibited internationally at space63 & 98B (Manila), the V&A & Somerset House (London), InterAccess (Toronto), ACMI (Australia), Tai Kwun (Hong Kong), WSA (New York), panke.gallery (Berlin), & Gray Area (San Francisco); spoken at the Grace Hopper Celebration, Naive Yearly, Config, & UX+; guest lectured at Yale University, the School for Poetic Computation, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, Parson's, et. al.; and have been featured in The New Yorker, Frieze, BOMB Magazine, It’s Nice That, Nylon, et. al, and are a Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia recipient & Lumen Prize Winner.

( Simply, I dream of gathering all the people I love in one place, and build an internet that might be that place. )