My name is Chia Amisola. I’m an artist, designer, and programmer.
Today, I work as a Product Designer at Figma, a tool for collaborative creativity, where I designed Figma Sites. Now, I work on our CMS & Make tools, and excel in narrative-making out of complex systems.
I’m an artist. I make websites, tools, games, sound, net art, text, and performances on technology's relations with intimacy, identity, and infrastructure. My practice aspires to be encyclopedic, archival, and also personal, producing & interrogating both systems and narratives around technological infrastructure, progress, and belief.
I founded & direct Developh (since 2016), 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.
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.
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.
I enjoy field recording, birding, experimental music, and slow cinema. My favorite League of Legends pro player is Showmaker.
chia@amiso.la
New York, NY
Exhibitions
Nguyen Wahed, NYNEORT & DIG Shibuya, JapanArt Fair, PhilippinesTate Britain, UKV&A Museum, UKNEWINC/Rhizome, NYTai Kwun, Hong Kongpanke.gallery, BerlinSomerset House, UK
Selected Press
BOMB MagazineThe Philippine StarThe New YorkerLumen PrizeForbes 30 Under 30Escape the AlgorithmIt's Nice ThatWeTransfer
Talks
How to Make Love (HTML), Rhizome & ArtWrld
Guest lectures at Yale, Princeton, Parsons, University of Chicago, USC, the School for Poetic Computation & more
My name is Chia Amisola. I’m an artist, designer, and programmer.
Today, I work as a Product Designer at Figma, a tool for collaborative creativity, where I designed Figma Sites. Now, I work on our CMS & Make tools, and excel in narrative-making out of complex systems.
I’m an artist. I make websites, tools, games, sound, net art, text, and performances on technology's relations with intimacy, identity, and infrastructure. My practice aspires to be encyclopedic, archival, and also personal, producing & interrogating both systems and narratives around technological infrastructure, progress, and belief.
I founded & direct Developh (since 2016), 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.
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.
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.
I enjoy field recording, birding, experimental music, and slow cinema. My favorite League of Legends pro player is Showmaker.
chia@amiso.la
LinkedIn, Are.na, Artists’ CV
New York, NY
Exhibitions
Nguyen Wahed, NYNEORT & DIG Shibuya, JapanArt Fair, PhilippinesTate Britain, UKV&A Museum, UKNEWINC/Rhizome, NYTai Kwun, Hong Kongpanke.gallery, BerlinSomerset House, UK
Selected Press
BOMB Magazine
The Philippine Star
The New Yorker
Lumen Prize
Forbes 30 Under 30
Escape the Algorithm
It's Nice That
WeTransfer
Talks
How to Make Love (HTML), Rhizome & ArtWrld
Guest lectures at Yale, Princeton, Parsons, University of Chicago, USC, the School for Poetic Computation & more