Screenings

Chia Amisola's practice is grounded in extensive research, producing websites that function simultaneously as medium and subject of exploration. In the series Arkipelago, the artist turns to Philippine “second creation” mythologies — stories centering earth, domesticity, and survival amid catastrophe — drawing formal inspiration from Filipino socialist realist painters from the 1970s and 1980s such as Anita Magsaysay-Ho. The work interrogates a foundational assumption of computational culture: that rural life stands as the opposite of the digital, rather than its condition and origin. Composed of hundreds of browser windows arranged through web-based simulation and manual gestures, the series appropriates imagery sourced from extractive online platforms and advertising, reassembling them into intimate vignettes of rural livelihood. By reimagining the browser as a living ecosystem, Amisola situates herself within the legacy of 1990s net art while pressing further — exposing how these infrastructures are no longer external to social life, but constitutive of it. Arkipelago, Ark 1 (2026) is part of the May 2026 program, To Fail the World with an Open Heart, curated by Robert Seidel.

To Fail the World With an Open Heart Night Lights Denver (NLD), Daniels & Fisher Tower, Denver, Colorado ↗ Curated by Robert Seidel Artists: Lillian Schwartz, Chia Amisola, Patricia Detmering, Zeitguised, Natalia Stuyk, Grischa Lichtenberger, Lorna Mills

'Inductive logic' responds to current post-info-era standards of reasoning, which are based on probability, not certainty. Lowering our collective standards for informed logic gives way to non-reflection and uninformed 'reasoning' — the acceptance of insignificance behind opinion.

Inductive Logic Screening with brawhaus x futurejuice.xyz FutureJuice (248 Flinders St), Kaurna Yarta, Australia April 1–19, 2026 Curated by brawhaus & futurejuice.xyz

The streets of Shibuya have continuously transformed. Redevelopment, policy changes, and shifts in the flow of people. These elements pile up like geological strata, accumulating within the city without ever being visualized. On the other hand, the screens scattered throughout the city, despite being at the forefront of these transformations, have functioned merely as devices that repeatedly display current information. "Screens Contextualized" is an experiment that re-examines the role of these screens and reorganizes them into devices that connect with the layers of memory and environment that the city has contained.

Screens Contextualized LED Wall, 00:27 (Silent) Shibuya Hikarie ShinQs 2F Through Passage LED Vision, NEORT & DIG Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan ↗ February 13–15, 2026

Arkipelago presented as a three-channel video installation: three synchronized screens depicting the tides, calamity, and territory of a barangayscape simulation drawn from Filipino second creation mythologies.

Three-channel video installation, 3:30 TRANSFER Download: AliveNET, Nguyen Wahed Gallery, New York ↗ January 16–March 19, 2026

Please Compile Carefully explores software art as a site of intimate human craft. The program brings together two contrasting artistic approaches and examines how software can function as an expressive material rather than a purely technical one. Through acts of performance and rewriting, the works emphasize the human gestures, decisions, and labor embedded within computational systems.

Please Compile Carefully TICK TACK Cinema, Antwerp, Belgium ↗ Projection, 1:00:34 (Silent) January 5–22, 2026 Duo with Sabato Visconti Curated by Mika Ben Amar

A series of dreamscapes handcoded and executed off the desktop.

Digital Intimacies Screening, 36:47 Digital Intimacies, HERVISIONS x Late at Tate Britain, London, UK ↗ May 2025

Tracing ME and YOU, winner of the Lumen Prize Moving Image Award.

Screening Digital Art Screening: The Lumen Prize presents The Future of Art, V&A Museum, London, UK ↗ September 21–22, 2024

Assembled out of new/old/unfinished pieces: a story about two boys, their bodies, and sound as the medium of memory… After Norman Dubie's 'An Annual of the Dark Physics' and Joshua Uyheng's 'Isaac'

Chia Amisola Screening, 16:15 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany ↗ September 13–October 31, 2024