Chia Amisola is an artist, product designer, and programmer making more intimate infrastructures.

 

Designing at Figma, directing Developh.

Writing

Tropical Technologist, Our Shiver, 2025

On the Philippines’ infrastructural violences and metabolic rifts

Nora Aunor as Network, 2025

On the Noranian imaginary, religious ecstacy, and the stardom of Catholicism

Documenting the Divine, Are.na, 2025

On Marian apparitions and the feminine nature of containers and computation

Making Space for a Handmade Web, Figma Shortcut, 2025

On the resurgence of a handcrafted web, and a dream of a million websites made by individuals

Domain Naming, Are.na/Naive Yearly, 2023

On naming as placemaking, and how domain names territorialize and personalize the web

Naming ambient art, 2022

On a study of sound, silence, and atmosphere, and the space I found myself in between

A Theophany, 2022

On making & worldbuilding as a survival mechanism, and all the creation that comes after death

Interviews

BOMB Magazine, Meg Miller, 2024

On performance, hypertext, poetry, and the desktop

Why aren’t there more websites about love?, Elan Ullendorff, 2023

Two-part interview on designing websites for intimacy

Networked World, WeTransfer & co-matter, 2024

Interview in a report on worlding as a creative strategy

Talks

Experimental Games Showcase, GDC, 2025

On KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN and karaoke as a game

On apocalypses, archipelagos, websites, UX+, 2024

On how the third world inhabits and remakes the internet

On viruses and love, NEWINC, 2024

On clawing ourselves into visibility and exploitation

Blog

I also write a blog at https://chias.blog/.

Made with Figma Sites

Chia Amisola is an artist, product designer, and programmer making more intimate infrastructures.

 

Designing at Figma, directing Developh.

Writing

Tropical Technologist, Our Shiver, 2025

On the Philippines’ infrastructural violences and metabolic rifts

Nora Aunor as Network, 2025

On the Noranian imaginary, religious ecstacy, and the stardom of Catholicism

Documenting the Divine, Are.na, 2025

On Marian apparitions and the feminine nature of containers and computation

Making Space for a Handmade Web, Figma Shortcut, 2025

On the resurgence of a handcrafted web, and a dream of a million websites made by individuals

Domain Naming, Are.na/Naive Yearly, 2023

On naming as placemaking, and how domain names territorialize and personalize the web

Naming ambient art, 2022

On a study of sound, silence, and atmosphere, and the space I found myself in between

A Theophany, 2022

On making & worldbuilding as a survival mechanism, and all the creation that comes after death

A selection of texts & presentations I’ve given.

 

( Ones I particularly like are marked with a heart. If no publication is mentioned, it is self-published. )

 

Adjacently, I hack at night on a tool for experimental hypertexts, working towards a new publishing medium for the web. It is called infrastructures.

Interviews

BOMB Magazine, Meg Miller, 2024

On performance, hypertext, poetry, and the desktop

Why aren’t there more websites about love?, Elan Ullendorff, 2023

Two-part interview on designing websites for intimacy

Networked World, WeTransfer & co-matter, 2024

Interview in a report on worlding as a creative strategy

Talks

Experimental Games Showcase, GDC, 2025

On KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN and karaoke as a game

On apocalypses, archipelagos, websites, UX+, 2024

On how the third world inhabits and remakes the internet

On viruses and love, NEWINC, 2024

On clawing ourselves into visibility and exploitation

Blog

I also write a blog at https://chias.blog/.

Made with Figma Sites

Chia Amisola is an artist, product designer, and programmer making more intimate infrastructures.

 

Designing at Figma, directing Developh.

Writing

Tropical Technologist, Our Shiver, 2025

On the Philippines’ infrastructural violences and metabolic rifts

Nora Aunor as Network, 2025

On the Noranian imaginary, religious ecstacy, and the stardom of Catholicism

Documenting the Divine, Are.na, 2025

On Marian apparitions and the feminine nature of containers and computation

Making Space for a Handmade Web, Figma Shortcut, 2025

On the resurgence of a handcrafted web, and a dream of a million websites made by individuals

Domain Naming, Are.na/Naive Yearly, 2023

On naming as placemaking, and how domain names territorialize and personalize the web

Naming ambient art, 2022

On a study of sound, silence, and atmosphere, and the space I found myself in between

A Theophany, 2022

On making & worldbuilding as a survival mechanism, and all the creation that comes after death

A selection of texts & presentations I’ve given.

 

( Ones I particularly like are marked with a heart. If no publication is mentioned, it is self-published. )

 

Adjacently, I hack at night on a tool for experimental hypertexts, working towards a new publishing medium for the web. It is called infrastructures.

Interviews

BOMB Magazine, Meg Miller, 2024

On performance, hypertext, poetry, and the desktop

Why aren’t there more websites about love?, Elan Ullendorff, 2023

Two-part interview on designing websites for intimacy

Networked World, WeTransfer & co-matter, 2024

Interview in a report on worlding as a creative strategy

Talks

Experimental Games Showcase, GDC, 2025

On KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN and karaoke as a game

On apocalypses, archipelagos, websites, UX+, 2024

On how the third world inhabits and remakes the internet

On viruses and love, NEWINC, 2024

On clawing ourselves into visibility and exploitation

Blog

I also write a blog at https://chias.blog/.

Made with Figma Sites