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.

...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.
Note for Invitations
For international invitations, please note that I have a Philippine passport, meaning I have limited mobility. Invitations well in advance, and in consideration of immigration challenges (incl. the scrutiny we third world artists receive at borders) would be appreciated.Education
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
Screening, V&A Museum, UK
DEMO Festival, New Museum x NEWINC, New York
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
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
