Chia Amisola is an artist of ambiences. Their practice explores the internet's loss, love, labor, and liberation from spaces domestic to divine. Composing agencies & atmospheres, they attend to the intimacies of infrastructures & the labor of tools.

Composing agencies, their work takes form as (web)site-specific art: performances, games, tools, sound, and installations. They work from sound & field recording, durational art & performance, rigorous programming & scraping... contemplating atmospheres and the faith, memory, power, and bodies that emerge.

Chia founded & stewards Developh (founded 2016), a community of practice towards an archipelagic internet, most recently curating & programming KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN! (That's what you get for using the computer!), an independent exhibition of third world net art.

Chia's work has been presented internationally at Art Fair Philippines, Manila; the V&A and Somerset House, London; InterAccess, Toronto; Tai Kwun, Hong Kong; WSA, New York; panke.gallery, Berlin; Gray Area, San Francisco; and the Experimental Games Showcase at GDC. Features include The New Yorker, BOMB Magazine, Frieze, It’s Nice That, Nylon, et. al, and recognition as Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia and as a Lumen Prize Winner.

They're a Product Designer at Figma designing creative tooling. They are based between San Francisco & Manila.

Chia Amisola
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Chia Amisola is a designer, developer, researcher, and artist. They currently design systems for interactivity at Figma; and practice as an artist (installations, performance, games, websites) whose work has been internationally exhibited.

They're interested in the poetics of machines, the labor of tools, and the intimacies of infrastructures: artistic applications and explorations of the internet/browser as medium, and of agents & alternative intelligences and ecosystems.

Previously, they designed/wrote code at Spotify (Design Systems), Kumu (#1 app in the Philippines), Rappler, and other small startups. They studied Computer Science and Art at Yale University.