Chia Amisola (b. 2000, Manila) is an artist & technologist devoted to the internet’s loss, love, labor, and liberation. Their work is situated within the third world internet's solidarities & struggles——towards the internet's ambiences, environments, & ecologies centering intimacies & infrastructures from the domestic to the divine. They organize Developh towards an archipelagic internet, most recently curating KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN!, an exhibition of Filipino internet art.
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.
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.
( Simply, I dream of gathering all the people I love in one place, and build an internet that might be that place. )
Education
2022 BA Computing & the Arts, YaleSelected Exhibitions
... Kakakompyuter Mo Yan (+ curatorial)2024 Screening, V&A Museum x Lumen Prize (UK)
2024 DEMO Festival, New Museum x NEWINC
2024 Artist Showcase, Gray Area (CA)
2023 Website as Subject (Dual with yehwan song), panke.gallery (Germany)
2023 All machines watched over by loving grace, InterAccess (Canada)
2023 Plural Prototypes, Gray Area (CA)
2023 Now Play This, Somerset House (UK)
2023 Soft Narratives, /rosa (Germany)
2023 Swords & Kisses, Staffordshire St (UK)
2022 Endnotes, Yale School of Art (US)
Professional
NOW Prototyping, Figma2021 Design Systems, Spotify
2020 Design, Kumu
2019 Tech, Rappler
Selected Talks & Performances
2024Himala (6 hour durational), CultureHub (NY, US)
On archipelagic internets, Gray Area (SF, US)
On apocalypses & archipelagos, UX+ (PH)
My Computer Never Asks Me How Many Computers I Had Before!, Gray Area (SF, US)
KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN, NEW INC (NY)
2023
Screen Walk, Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH) & Photographers' Gallery London (UK)
Internet ambient, 98B (PH)
If you knew me..., panke.gallery (DE)
On domain naming, Naive Yearly (DK)
On mythology & computing, Casual Islands (CA)
On sites & sights, Processing (US)
On cyberfeminism, The Lab (CA, US)
On prototyping, Figma (CA, US)
Concrete Form, CultureHub (NY)
Artists' talk, WordHack (NY, US)
On (web)sites, Software for People at Yale (CT)
EARLIER
On design as fantasy, UX+ (PH)
On worlding, Batangas State University (PH)
Speaker, Hopper Down Under (AU)
Speaker, Grace Hopper Celebration (TX, US)
Selected Press
BOMB MagazineThe New Yorker
WeTransfer
It’s Nice That
Escape the Algorithm (Interview)
Usurpator (Interview)
Frieze
El País
Nylon
Selected Residencies & Honors
Forbes 30 under 30Art & Code, New Musem's NEW INC x Rhizome
Media Arts Residency, Kala Art Institute
Microgrant for net.art, Rhizome
Cultural Incubator, Gray Area
Residency, Welcome to my Homepage
Fellow, Internet Archive/DWeb Camp
Sudler Prize for Creative Arts, Yale University
Availability
I'm always interested in speaking, making, writing, exhibiting, and performing.
Creative & artistic collaborations are highly welcome, especially with institutions / individuals from the Philippines.
I'm not available for any paid or full-time opportunities outside of art. (I can't make you a personal website!)