Biography

Chia Amisola is a Filipino designer + internet/ambient artist. They like to make websites and have been making websites since they were 6 years old.
b. 2000 in Tondo, Manila

Longer bio

Chia Amisola (they/them) is an internet / ambient artist. Their practice explores worldmaking on the internet to construct spaces, systems, and tools for communal care – imagining a world where creation is synonymous with liberation. Their work is constructed with constraints, compression, & tool defaults to simultaneously dwell within & reinvent technologies as a Filipino tech worker. Through (web)site-specific art, they subvert the platforms and spaces they have lived within and now take part in building. Chia is the Founder of Developh, a community of practice for Filipino technologists to engage with technology critically since 2016.

Simply put, they are interested in gathering all the people they love in one place, and how the internet can be one of those places.

By day they are a Product Designer on Figma's Prototyping team. At night, they create Developh— a community of practice towards radical, critical technologies that Chia founded in 2016. They're also stewarding the beginnings of the Philippine Internet Archive, a net label, web experiments, radio, and field recording. They recently graduated from Yale with a BA in Computing and the Arts, receiving the Louis Sudler Prize, where their thesis was a game engine that's a game in itself.

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