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.

chiamisola@gmail.com
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