Chia Amisola (b. 2000, Manila) is devoted to the internet’s ambiences and its loss, love, labor, and liberation. An artist, technologist, & designer situated within the third world internet's ecologies, 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 (2016) and the Philippine Internet Archive (2023) towards a poetic, critical & archipelagic third world internet, recently curating & developing KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN!, an independent exhibition of Filipino internet art & network cultures.

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.

By day, they work as a Product Designer at Figma for interactivity (always in love with creative tooling). They are based between San Francisco & Manila.

chiamisola@gmail.com
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