My name is Chia Amisola. I’m an artist, designer, and programmer.

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I work as a Product Designer at Figma, a tool for collaborative creativity. I’ve designed across several products: Sites, Prototyping, and CMS, often thinking about how we publish on the web and explore ideas. As a designer, I am interested in building software & infrastructures that shape new media and narratives—most interested in what emergent narratives may come out of open-ended systems.

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I’m an artist. I make websites, hypertexts, tools, and performances on technology's relations with intimacy, identity, and infrastructure. My practice aspires to be encyclopedic, archival, and personal—producing & interrogating the systems and narratives around technological infrastructure, progress, and belief. Right now, I’m working on a broad series of works called ‘Every Love Song in the World’ tracing the entanglements of Southeast Asia amidst internet history. Other artistic worlds include ‘Himala’, a series on cyberfeminism and Catholicism and my in-progress dating simulator where you date everything. See more at everythingi.love, my artists’ website.

I founded & direct Developh, a research & arts institution dedicated to critical and creative technology practice in the Philippines & broader Southeast Asia. Projects include KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN! (That's what you get for using the computer!), an exhibition of Filipino net art presented with NEWINC, Tai Kwun, Art Fair Philippines, & Transmediale; and the Philippine Internet Archive, preserving histories of Filipino involvement in digital & network histories.

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My work is presented across art, technology, and academic contexts. I’ve exhibited or presented internationally at Art Fair (Philippines); the V&A and Tate Britain (UK); Gray Area (San Francisco, US); Nguyen Wahed Gallery (New York, USA); Transmediale & panke.gallery (Germany); Tai Kwun (Hong Kong); InterAccess (Canada); and Now Play This at Somerset House and the Experimental Games Showcase at the Game Developers Conference. Guest lectures have been given at Yale University, Princeton University, University of Chicago, University of Southern California, and more.

Features include The New Yorker, BOMB Magazine, Frieze, It’s Nice That, Nylon, et. al. I’m recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia honoree and a Lumen Prize Winner, and have held residencies with NEW INC, Gray Area, and the Internet Archive.

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I received a BA in Computing & the Arts from Yale University in 2022. Before that, I grew up in Manila, Philippines, where I started dreaming of gathering all the people I love in one place, working towards how the internet could be that place.

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I enjoy field recording, birding, experimental music, and slow cinema. My favorite League of Legends pro player is ShowMaker.