Chia Amisola is an artist of ambiences whose work is devoted to the third world internet's loss, love, labor, and liberation from spaces domestic to divine.

Attending to the intimacies of infrastructures and the labor of tools, they compose agencies & atmospheres that are sustained by faith, unseen systems, and scales beyond us. An artist, programmer, and researcher, they work across performance, hypertext, games, installations, and tooling.

Chia founded & stewards Developh (founded 2016), a research & arts institution in the Philippines dedicated to critical third world technologies, most recently curating & programming KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN! (That's what you get for using the computer!), an independent 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 formerly a NEWINC Art & Code member and an Internet Archive DWeb Camp Fellow.

They're a Product Designer at Figma designing creative tooling for interactivity & sites — always an artist-founder in practice. 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.