Chia Amisola (b. 2000, Manila) is devoted to the internet's loss, love, labor, and liberation. Their work takes interest in the intimacies of infrastructures and the labor of tools. Operating between the domestic and divine, they make (web)site-specific art as worlds: performances, games, tools, lectures, & environments that mend net art, software, systems, sound, archives, devotion, and networks.

Their work refigures the ambiences of agency; largely through embodied hypertextual performances that blend and blur their net art works and sound practice, and as independent experimental games that present in spaces such as GDC and Now Play This.

Chia founded & stewards Developh (founded 2016) and the Philippine Internet Archive towards a poetic, critical & archipelagic third world internet, recently curating & programming KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN!, an independent exhibition third world internet art with 24 new works of Filipino new media.

They've presented 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+; and have been featured in The New Yorker, BOMB Magazine, Frieze, It’s Nice That, Nylon, et. al, and are a Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia recipient & 2024 Lumen Prize Winner.

They work as a Product Designer at Figma for interactivity and creative tooling. They are based between San Francisco & Manila.

chiamisola@gmail.com
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