Chia Amisola is an artist of internet ambience whose work is devoted to the internet's loss, love, labor, and liberation. Their practice takes interest in the intimacies of infrastructures, the labor of tools, and the poetics of machines — from spaces domestic to divine.
Composing agencies, their work takes form in (web)site-specific art as worlds: performances, games, tools, sound, and installations.
Chia founded & stewards Developh (founded 2016) and the Philippine Internet Archive towards a poetic, critical & archipelagic third world internets, most recently curating & programming KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN! (That's what you get for using the computer!), an independent exhibition of third world net art.
Their work has been presented internationally at Art Fair Philippines, Manila; the V&A & 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.
They have been featured in The New Yorker, BOMB Magazine, Frieze, It’s Nice That, Nylon, et. al, and have been recognized on Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia and as a Lumen Prize Winner.
They work as a Product Designer at Figma for interactivity and creative tooling. They are based between San Francisco & Manila.

...For technologists
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.
Contact
chiamisola@gmail.comUpdates: Are.na, Instagram, Twitter, Bluesky
Documentation: Vimeo, Youtube
Other: Wikipedia, LinkedIn
Location: San Francisco, CA & Manila, Philippines
Work
2022—Present, Product Designer, FigmaEducation
2022, BA Computing & the Arts, YaleSelected Exhibitions
Kakakompyuter Mo Yan!, Art Fair Philippines, ManilaRoot Access (Duo with Yoshi Sodeoka), MoMAR, New York
Code.Xcess, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Three Shadows, Beijing
Average Play Time, New Uncanny, New York
Lavender Town, HEART (NYC)
Screening, V&A Museum x Lumen Prize, UK
DEMO Festival, New Museum x NEWINC, New York
Artist Showcase, Gray Area, San Francisco
Website as Subject (Duo with yehwan song), panke.gallery, Berlin
All machines watched over by loving grace, InterAccess, Canada
Plural Prototypes, Gray Area, San Francisco
Now Play This, Somerset House, London
Soft Narratives, /rosa, Berlin
Swords & Kisses, Staffordshire St, London
Endnotes, Yale School of Art, New Haven
Selected Talks & Performances
On Himala, Internet Archive, San FranciscoHimala, CultureHub, New York
Artists talk, Gray Area, San Francisco
On apocalypses & archipelagos, UX+, Manil
Performance, Gray Area, San Francisco
KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN, NEW INC, New York
Screen Walk, Fotomuseum Winterthur & Photographers' Gallery London
Internet ambient, 98B Collab, Manila
If you knew me..., panke.gallery, Berlin
Domain naming, Naive Yearly, Copenhagen
On mythologies, Casual Islands, Canada
On sites & sights, Processing, Online
On cyberfeminism, The Lab, San Francisco
Concrete Form, CultureHub, New York
Artists Talk, WordHack, New York
On (web)sites, Software for People, Yale
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
