Chia Amisola (Homepage Residency)

From The Museum of Human Achievement


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Date start 07.01.23
Date end 07.22.23
Start Time 12am
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Chia Amisola was a resident of Welcome to my Homepage who made progress on the project during the residency period and continues to make updates post-residency.

Artist Bio

Chia Amisola (they/them) is a Filipino internet artist + 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 (web)site-specific art concerns the politics of ambience, memory, compression, labor, and love. Chia is the Founder of Developh, a critical technology institute for Filipino technologists founded in 2016 and the Philippine Internet Archive. They graduated from Yale University in 2022 with a BA in Computing & the Arts and received the Sudler Prize. They've spoken at the Processing Foundation, Yale School of Art, Grace Hopper Celebration, & Causal Islands, and their work has been featured in The New Yorker. By day, they work on creative tooling at Figma, curate folk archives, and make field recordings.