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
Artists' CV
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Education
2022 BA Computing & the Arts, YaleSelected Exhibitions
Kakakompyuter Mo Yan (+ Curatorial)Art Fair Philippines 2025, Manila (Philippines)
Root Access (Duo with Yoshi Sodeoka), MoMAR (NYC)
Code.Xcess, Tai Kwun (Hong Kong)
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Three Shadows (China)
Average Play Time, New Uncanny (NYC)
Lavender Town, HEART (NYC)
Screening, V&A Museum x Lumen Prize (UK)
DEMO Festival, New Museum x NEWINC
Artist Showcase, Gray Area (CA)
Website as Subject (Duo with yehwan song), panke.gallery (Germany)
All machines watched over by loving grace, InterAccess (Canada)
Plural Prototypes, Gray Area (CA)
Now Play This, Somerset House (UK)
Soft Narratives, /rosa (Germany)
Swords & Kisses, Staffordshire St (UK)
Endnotes, Yale School of Art (US)
Selected Talks & Performances
Himala (6 hour durational), CultureHubOn archipelagic internets, Gray Area (SF, US)
On apocalypses & archipelagos, UX+ (PH), 2024
Solo Performance, Gray Area (SF, US)
KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN, NEW INC (NY)
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 (Copenhagen)
On mythologies, Casual Islands (CA)
On sites & sights, Processing (US)
On cyberfeminism, The Lab (CA, US)
Concrete Form, CultureHub (NY, US)
WordHack (NYC)
On (web)sites, Software for People at Yale, (CT)
On worlding, Batangas State University (PH) On design as fantasy, UX+ (PH)
Selected Press
BOMB Magazine (Interview)The New Yorker
WeTransfer
It’s Nice That
Escape the Algorithm (Interview)
Usurpator (Interview)
Frieze
El País
Nylon
Esquire
Awards & Residencies
Moving Image Award, Lumen PrizeResident, CultureHub NY
30 Under 30 Asia, Forbes
Y10 Art & Code, NEW INC, Rhizome & New Museum
Media Arts Residency, Kala Art Institute
Microgrant for net.art, Rhizome
Cultural Incubator, Gray Area
Fellow, DWeb Camp, Internet Archive
Sudler Prize for Creative Arts, Yale University