Chia Amisola is an artist of agencies and ambiences. Their work is devoted to the internet's loss, love, labor, and liberation.

Amisola traces technology's relationship with agency, ambience, and atmosphere. Their practice takes interest in the intimacies of infrastructures, the labor of tools, and the poetry of machines, across spaces domestic and divine.

Their work incorporates websites, performance, hypertexts, games, tools, performative lectures, and video; often stretching the boundaries of these technologies and approximating simulations of new worlds, spaces, and narratives.

Chia founded & stewards Developh (founded 2016), a research & arts institution in the Philippines dedicated to critical and creative technologies, most recently curating & programming KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN! (That's what you get for using the computer!), exhibition of Filipino net art.

Chia's work has been presented internationally at Art Fair Philippines, Manila; the V&A and Tate Britain, London; Tai Kwun, Hong Kong; WSA, New York; panke.gallery, Berlin; Gray Area, San Francisco; InterAccess, Toronto; 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 were a NEWINC Art & Code Y10 and an Internet Archive DWeb Camp Fellow.

They're a Product Designer at Figma designing creative tooling. They are based between New York & 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.