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CHIA AMISOLA

Towards a world where creation is synonymous with liberation

Internet & ambient artist, designer
b. 2000


INFORMATION


hotemogirlfriend@gmail.com
Are.na, Twitter, Instagram, Itch.io, YouTube

Further information & CV

(\(\ ( -.-) o_(")(")


INTERESTS

The Philippines, territory, infrastructure
Field recording, sound, noise, ambience
Love, proximity, intimacy
Duration, devotion



PHILOSOPHY

On (web)site-specific art
On ambient art & practice
On a theophany




PRACTICE


The internet's loss, love, labor, & liberation
Ambient & environmental conditions

(Websites, hypertext, performance, installations, games, archives, tools)


WHEN WE LOVE

A dating sim where you date everything. An expansive world of digital intimacy,
proximities, and abundance offline and online.

2023—

Website / Game


INTERNET AMBIENT

Desktop & networked performance practice
Screen Walk
Performance at SoEx

Let me perform for you?


CHIAS.BLOG

My personal blog.

2016—

Blog


PHILIPPINE INTERNET ARCHIVE

Ang kasaysayan ng internet ay ang kasaysayan ng tao. A live archive of Filipino
internet history.

Jan 2023—

Research / Archive


DEVELOPH

A community of practice towards softer & critical technologies in the
Philippines.

2016—

Community




ENGINE.LOL

A gamemaker for tiny browser-based collage worlds, where the tool is a game in
itself.

2022—

Gamemaking Tool


CV

Here you go!


AMBIENT INSTITUTE

A space gathering resources, talks, teachings, and dispatches from my teaching
practice.

May 2023—

Website


UPCOMING


KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN!

Artistic interventions on Filipino internet culture & networking histories.
Online.

2024 (Upcoming)

Exhibition


DEVELOPH DRY SEASON

Talks and programming nurturing critical and poetic technologies in the
Philippines.

2024 (Upcoming)

Programming


DIMENSIONAL IFRAME MOVIE

...

2024 (Upcoming)

Net Art


LET ME PLACE AN IFRAME ON YOUR SITE

A distributed piece on colonialism, squatting, expansionism against the
homemade. (Email me if I can have some space please!)

2024 (Upcoming)

Net Art




2024


୭ 🧷 ✧ ˚. ᵎᵎ 🎀 GENERATOR

I LOVE MY HYPERTEXT :: do you believe in blogging? :: CLICK to be wanted! CLICK
to be desired!

March 2024

Generative (WIP)




OUTLAND ART FEATURE

A conversation with Wade on some of my games work.

March 2024

Press


LITURGY OF THE ARCHIPELAGO

A conversation on archipelagos, memory, and institutions written by Sharmini
Aphrodite. (Thank you, Sharmini & Feelers!)

March 2024

Article


DOMAIN NAMING

An essay-site on domain naming exploring language, territory, control, identity,
and imperialism as it relates to the handmade web.

2024

Essay


NAIVE YEARLY X ARE.NA

Adaptations of talks from the inaugural Naive Yearly conference last August
2023.

2024

Essay




A CYBERARCHAEOLOGY OF CHECKPOINTS

Ruby Justice Thelot's 'A Cyberarchaeology of Checkpoints' at Gray Area, in
conversation. 6:00PM 2.21.

Feb 2024

Gathering


THE SOUND OF LOVE

Collectong stories of love, loss, and longing, now with 500+ comments and a new
interface.

Feb 2024

Website


WEBSITE LOOKING INTO ITSELF

Feb 2024

Website


GUEST LECTURE, HTTPOETICS @ SCHOOL FOR POETIC COMPUTATION

Feb 2024

Lecture




AMBIENT READING / PLAYING / WRITING / SCORING

A premiere of 'A Bedroom in Las Piñas' on the Screen Walks Twitch. (Fotomuseum
Winterthur and The Photographers’ Gallery London).

Jan 2024

Performance


CONVERSATION, OUTLAND ART'S GAMES ISSUE

Speaking on games and net art for Outland Art. (Thank you, Wade!)

Jan 2024

Conversation


GUEST LECTURE, SYNTHESIS @ VCU

A remote guest lecture for seniors at VCU. (Thank you, Herdimas!)

Jan 2024

Lecture


A BEDROOM IN LAS PIÑAS (COLOR UPDATE)

A point-and-click escapist room consisting of vignettes from Manila.

Jan 2024

Game


PITCH SYNTAX ISSUE_02: DARK WEB

Due January 26. I'm doing editorial for web/interactive pieces.

Jan 2024

Pitch




CHI.ITCH.IO

Uploading and redesigning some game pages on itch.io!

Jan 2024

Games


IT'S NICE THAT FEATURE

I am an incoming visual trend! Words by Liz Gorny and Lucy Bourton.

Jan 2024

Press


TEMPORARY PERFORMANCE ASSEMBLY DOCUMENTATION

The artist is dreaming...

Jan 2024

Documentation


(SELECTED) WORKS, 2023

Index and recap of the past year of making.

Jan 2024

Recap




AND__HEARTS ON GLOBAL WEIRDING, SUTRO FM

A glitch + ambient mix for Global Weirding on Sutro FM. (58:00)

Jan 2024

Mix


E-V-E-R-Y-W-H-E-R-E.COM

A real-time, long-term hypertext story on a forum at the beginning / end of the
internet.

Jan 2024—

???


2023


A BEDROOM IN LAS PIÑAS

A point-and-click escapist room consisting of vignettes from Manila.

Dec 2023

Game


LANDSCAPES

Series of HTML Landscapes published in Syntax Magazine.

Dec 2023

Publication


୧ ‧₊˚ 🎐 ⋅୧ ‧₊˚ 🎐 ⋅⋆。°•☁️

63 YouTube embeds (color, silent). iFrame Landscape.

Dec 2023

Website


⋆𓆟⋆。˚🎣𓆝 𓆟 ⋆⭒𓆟⋆。˚𖦹𓆜✩⋆𓆞🎐⋆𓆟

42 YouTube embeds (color, silent). Shown at Gray Area. iFrame Landscape.

Dec 2023

Website


⋆。 ゚☁︎。 ⋆。 ゚☀︎。 ⋆。 ゚☁️⋅♡𓂃

100 YouTube embeds (color, silent). iFrame Landscape.

Dec 2023

Website


SYNTAX MAG LAUNCH PARTY

Release at the Living Gallery for a magazine about the internet & culture. Dec
15, 2023.

2023

Gathering


ALL I LOVE, THING+1

Stream Chia as they create and uncreate a world. With thing.tube for THING+1.

2023

Performance


WE ARE ONLY DREAMING, SCREEN WALK

A desktop performance summoning popups and feedback loops for Screen Walks
(Fotomuseum Winterthur and The Photographers’ Gallery London). Dec 13, 2023.

2023

Performance


EXHIBITION AT GRAY AREA

Fish, femininity, and folding & unfolding of the browser. Dec 13–14, 2023.

2023

Installation


SYNTAX MAG

Creative direction, design, & development for a magazine about culture and the
internet.

2023

Publication


A COMPRESSION OF LIFE IN BOXES

A story of memory and erasure composed entirely of iFrames. Transient videos,
images, links, and sounds disconnect & decay.

Dec 2023—

Net Art (Unreleased)


STROLL

A short stroll.

Dec 2023

engine.lol game


ENGINE.LOL 2.0

A gamemaker for tiny browser-based collage worlds, where the tool is a game in
itself.

Dec 2023

Tool


ENGINE.LOL 2.0

A gamemaker for tiny browser-based collage worlds, where the tool is a game in
itself.

Dec 2023

Tool


CRUCIFIXION

On the third hour, Jesus was crucified.

Nov 2023

Net Art (Unreleased)


RUNTIME AS RITUAL AS RELIGION (AS REPETITION)

A remote performance, a revelation, a repeating.

Nov 2023

Performance


ESCOLTA MEMORY BOX

Installation for Friends of Friends + Hola, Escolta's block party.

Nov 2023

Web


TEMPORARY PERFORMANCE ASSEMBLY

Performing at Southern Exposure as part of its annaul juried art program.
November 18th, 6–9PM.

Nov 18 2023

Performance


GUEST LECTURE, TEACHING AS SOCIAL PRACTICE

A remote guest lecture for Teaching as Social Practice. (Thank you, Kameelah!)

Nov 2023

Lecture


CAN TWO THINGS EVER REALLY TOUCH OR CAN WE ONLY FALL APART?

Nov 2023

Net Art


WEBSITE AS SUBJECT

The website is a cathedral, monument, vessel, home. A dual exhibition with
yehwan song. 11.9–11.25

Nov 2023

Exhibition


ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE

Group exhibition on love, humans, machines, and harmony. Curated by Gladys Lou
for InterAccess. 11.8–12.9

Nov 2023

Exhibition


GRAY AREA ARTIST SALON

A 10-minute performative lecture & presentation on my practice. Gray Area, San
Francisco. Nov 8.

Nov 8 2023

Talk


GAME / CHAT / SHOP

An endless loop of ends in a small compshop. Where does the game end? Where do
we begin?

Nov 2023

Game




RUNWAY JOURNAL ISSUE #47 LAUNCH

An endless loop of ends in a small compshop. Launch of a new game with Runway
Journal at ACMI in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Nov 4, 2023.

Nov 2023

Launch




INTERNET AMBIENT POSTCARDS & PRINTS

Some ephemera distributed at the Index Space performance!

Oct 2023

Performance


IF YOU KNEW ME WOULD YOU LOVE ME?

An internet ambient performance in San Francisco, California. Hosted by Index
Space at Studio 45.

Oct 26 2023

Performance


GUEST LECTURE, INTO TO CREATIVE WEB DESIGN

An in-person guest lecture at USC... a short daytrip to LA. :) (Thank you, Q!)

Oct 2023

Lecture


GUEST LECTURE, DIGITAL DESIGN AT PARSONS

An in-person guest lecture for a club at Parsons. (Thank you, Graeme.)

Oct 2023

Lecture




GUEST LECTURE, ESCAPE THE ALGORITHM

An in-person guest lecture and crit at the Escape the Algorithm class at the
University of Pennsylvania. (Thank you, Elan.)

Oct 2023

Lecture


GRAY AREA: PLURAL PROTOTYPES

Work that embodies the decentralized web for this year's Gray Area Festival.

Oct 19 2023

Exhibition


MARTIAL LAW INDEX

The Martial Law Index is a curation of resources and materials concerning the
Dictator Ferdinand Marcos' rule and the 1972—1981 martial law period.

Oct 2023

Archive


BANTAYOG NG MGA BAYANI

Ang Bantayog on the Bantayog ng mga Bayani's website. (Thank you Karl Ramirez &
May Rodriguez.)

Oct 2023

Press


‘ANG BANTAYOG’ WRITEUP

On Chias.blog

Sep 2023

Release Notes


‘ANG BANTAYOG’ WEBSITE HOPES TO RETHINK HOW WE REMEMBER MARTIAL LAW, RAPPLER

"Dwelling on the web itself means continuously losing access to one’s own past."

Sep 2023

Press


ANG BANTAYOG

"The Monument" can never be a true memorial. A recollection for the victims of
the Martial Law regime.

Sep 2023

Website




MEET NEW INC'S 2023-24 ART & CODE TRACK MEMBERS

Rhizome

Sep 2023

Press


NEW INC ART & CODE

at the ✨ intersection of art & technology ✨

Sep 2023

Press




CHIAS.WEBSITE

A new garden

Sep 2023

Website


CHIAS.WORLD

Investigations on the site of the web(site) and tending on the internet. For
Welcome to my Homepage...

July–Aug 2023

Residency


ON DOMAIN NAMING

Naming as placemaking through the domain name's in identity, territorialization,
& colonialism.

Aug 2023

Research


INTERNET AMBIENT AT 98B COLLABORATORY

(Escolta, Philippines)

Aug 2023

Performance


INTERNET AMBIENT AT KEEPERS

(Makati, Philippines)

Aug 2023

Performance


MÅSKE ER INTERNETTET IKKE HELT AD HTML TIL?, ATLAS MAG

I get roasted but also sound very political on a Danish publication

Aug 2023

Press


PACIFICATION, CD GRAPHIC



Aug 2023

Graphic




PACIFICATION, NTS SUPPORTER RADIO

Indie rock & ambient selection for NTS 'On The Road'

Aug 2023

Mix


IF YOU KNEW ME WOULD YOU LOVE ME?

The browser as performance, a performance of the browser at panke.gallery
(Berlin, Germany)

Aug 2023

Performance


SPACE10 SUMMER GATHERING DJ SET

A born-internet DJ set for Naive Yearly x Space 10's afterparty. With Kurt
Kolev.

Aug 2023

Audio


NAIVE YEARLY

Speaking on naming/domain names, territorialization, colonialism, and space
(Copenhagen, Denmark)

Aug 2023

Talk


FWBFEST SCHOLAR

Heading to the woods of southern California with my friends with benefits and
Charli XCX

Aug 2023

Gathering


INTERNET AMBIENT TOUR

A tour poster for my single-entry, very short Europe Summer Tour

August 2023

Tour




WELCOME TO MY HOMEPAGE RESIDENCY

Exploring techno-optimism and the possibilities of love online with the Museum
of Human Achievement.

July 2023

Residency


CAUSAL ISLANDS PODCAST

Recapping the inaugural Causal Islands conference!

July 2023

Podcast


A WEBSITE CAN BE A POEM (A POEM CAN BE A WEBSITE)

An interview with Anna of Usurpator Mag on placemaking, internet structures,
attending...

July 2023

Podcast / Interview


THE SOUND OF LOVE BOOKS

Selling two 128-page artist books + postcards leftover from the Sound of Love's
anniversary!

July 2023

Goods


98B ESC RESIDENCY

Exploring spatial negotiations and internet history with 98B COLLABoratory.

July 2023

Residency


THE WEB IS A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE GATHERED

A conversation with Elan Kiderman Ullendorff on archival and self-preservation

July 2023

Interview


WHY AREN'T THERE MORE WEBSITES ABOUT LOVE?

A conversation with Elan Kiderman Ullendorff on love as making

June 2023

Interview


&BIENT

A two hour ambient mix for Manila Community Radio.

June 2023

Mix


&BIENT GRAPHICS

A tiny website

June 2023

Graphic


READING A POETIC WEB

An emergent performance at the DWeb Camp

June 2023

Gathering


DWEB CAMP FELLOW

Heading to the woods of northern California to explore the internet

June 2023

Gathering


PROTOTYPING @ FIGMA'S CONFIG

Speaking with my team on everything prototyping at Figma's Config.

June 2023

Talk


CYBERFEMINISM INDEX

Gathering around Mindy Seu's anti-canon at the Lab on 6/17 with Mindy Seu, Viv
Qiu, Victoria Shen, and Molly Turner.

June 2023

Gathering


SHEET SITES TUTORIAL

A recorded walkthrough of the Sheet Sites workshop.

June 2023

Tutorial


SHEET SITES

Learn how to make websites from spreadsheets with me, inspired by SFPC's
Solidarity Infrastructures.

June 2023

Workshop


ALL I LOVE

A naming of a world

June 2023

Website


CITATIONS

(Inexhaustive)

June 2023

Index


HTML.ENERGY SF

Imbued with HTML Energy, make WWWs (websites) with us at Alamo Square Park on
June 3rd.

June 2023

Gathering


DEVELOPH WEBSITES

New identities (again) for Developh, Kakakompyuter Mo Yan, and the Philippine
Internet Archive.

May 2023

Website


KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN! OPEN CALL

Due July 1st, send us your work!

May 2023

Open Call


INSPECT ELEMENTS

A reading with contributors of the HTML Review, performing 'Concrete Form'.

May 2023

Reading


SOUND ROOM

A small multiplayer sound tool tucked inside the Ambient Institute.

May 2023

Sound Website


ENGINE.LOL TEXT

A mobile-friendly, text-only edition of engine.lol. (Initial release)

May 2023

engine.lol variant




CHIA.PICS, MAY 2023

A small update...

May 2023

Pics


WORDHACK @ WONDERVILLE

Performing at WordHack on May 18th at Wonderville, Brooklyn.

May 2023

Performance


NOW PLAYING

Lucy Liyou's Dog Dreams and the Boiler Room x Manila Community Radio sets

Spotify, Soundcloud


INA



May 2023

engine.lol game


ONLINE PUBLICATIONS BRIDGING POETRY & CODE, FRIEZE

Alongside friends, peers, influences, & mentors on an article highlighting the
HTML Review, Crawlspace, & others.

May 2023

Press


DEVELOPH 2023 WEBSITE

Small identities for the ever-evolving community of critical practice &
technology.

May 2023

Website


SOFT NARRATIVES

Softer networks. panke.gallery + KUNSTSURFER, Berlin + Online.

May 2023

Exhibition


SWORDS AND KISSES

Online exhibition at Der Vierte Raum, designed + developed + curated by Yifan
He.

Apr 2023

Exhibition


NOW PLAY THIS CONVERSATION

A conversation on love online and We Are Only Moving Towards Each Other

Apr 2023

Conversation


FIGMA EARLY CAREER WEEK

Speaking with other Figma new grad designers!

Apr 2023

Talk


CREATION MYTHS OF COMPUTING SITE

Speaking at Causal Islands on narrative, power, authorship, and faith. 4.26.

Apr 2023

Talk




CREATION MYTHS OF COMPUTING

Speaking at Causal Islands on narrative, power, authorship, and faith. 4.26.

Apr 2023

Talk


SFPC MEET THE PARTICIPANTS

Meet me

Apr 2023

Meeting


SARI SARI SARI SARI

A folk index of manually curated sari-sari stores across the Philippines.

Apr 2023

Website


ANTEFLING 2023

With Alice Longyu Gao, Tony Velour, Geese, and Qween Kong.

Apr 2023

Website


BISITA (2023)

A revisitation of Bisita, a browser-based tour originally made in 2021.

Apr 2023

Website


NOW PLAY THIS

Exhibiting at a festival celebrating experimental game design and love. Somerset
House (London), 4.1-9.

Apr 2023

Exhibit


CONCRETE FORM

An interactive form poem epic and study of identity, repetition, naming. For The
HTML Review's Sping 2023 issue.

Apr 2023

Website


DREAM

To gather all the people I love in one place and build an internet that might be
that place


SNAKE IN FIGMA

Happy April Fun Day

Apr 2023

Product


RAINY DAY

Open your umbrella...

Mar 2023

Website


STICKY SCROLLING IN FIGMA

Yahoo!

Mar 2023

Product


SIGHTS & SOUNDS

For Common Discourse

Mar 2023

Interview


CHAT ROOM FOR GAMERS & MORE

A panel on fictions and games for Swords and Kisses

Mar 2023

Panel


AMBIENT SITES & SIGHTS

A workshop for the Processing Creative Coding Festival

Mar 2023

Workshop


WEBSITE STILL LIFE

Golden Gate Park Tulips

Mar 2023

Website


SWORDS AND KISSES

On queer/trans/diasporic visions of fantas & worlding. Staffordshire St
(London), 3.23-26.

Mar 2023

Exhibit


LAS HISTORIAS ÍNTIMAS QUE ESCONDEN LOS COMENTARIOS DE YOUTUBE, EL PAÍS

Interviewed for my love of YouTube comments and thesoundof.love on El País.

Mar 2023

Press


CLOUDWATCH

Cloud in bio

Mar 2023

Website


LET ME MENTOR YOU

A mentorship offer to Filipino students

Mar 2023

Offer


FROM JACK TO JUKE FLYER

An event hosted by Lonnie Taylor. For Sutro.FM.

Feb 2023

Poster


VIDEOS V2

My first big feature release at Figma!

Feb 2023

Product


AMBIENT AT KOFFEE

A rainy evening ambient show played with Hailey on 2.17.

Feb 2023

Manifesto


GUEST LECTURE AT SOFTWARE FOR PEOPLE

Interactive Design and the Internet at Yale. Thank you Rosa ♡

Feb 2023

Talk


MANIFESTO FOR (WEB)SITE-SPECIFIC ART

Positing websites as worlds, and we as worldmakers.

Feb 2023

Manifesto


UK RAVE COMMENTS

128 pages of 5.5x5.5" spiral-bound comments left on Jungle, Acid, DNB YouTube
videos.

Feb 2023

Zine


THE SOUND OF LOVE

128 pages of 5.5x5.5" spiral-bound comments left on assorted YouTube videos.

Feb 2023

Zine


THE PROMISE OF TECHNOLOGY IS THE PROMISE OF PEOPLE



Jan 2023

Text


BAD INTERNET

An online gallery for browser-based work on an unreliable server, making form of
the worst of the web.

Jan 2023

Gallery (Coming Soon)


CLOUDWATCHING

A gathering and naming at day as the clouds roll on by. A small social network.

Jan 2023

Alt Social Network


WE ARE ONLY MOVING TOWARDS EACH OTHER

A dream sequence. A concrete browser poem. 15,000 words.

Jan 2023

Net Art


IF I SOW ALL MY WORDS, WHO WILL REAP THEM?

A slow and seedy social network.

Jan 2023

Website


DEVELOPH LIBRARY

Curating texts on critical tech for the Philippines. Donate books!

Jan 2023

Library


YOUTUBE

I just upload websites.

Jan 2023

Social Media


CHIAS.WEBSITE

A new Chia center.

Jan 2023

Website


STARGAZING

We are all under the same stars at night.
Part of when we love.

Jan 2023

Alt Social Network




2022


CHIA.PICS WRAPPED

April — December (-ish)

Dec 2022

Website


CHIA.PICS VOL 1

A collection. 6x4 spiral bound

Dec 2022

Zine


SMILEY

A tiny emoticon game. =)

Dec 2022

Website


I LOVE IT WHEN YOU (AUTO)

love me too

Dec 2022

Website


TENDER WEBSITES



Dec 2022

Website (WIP)


A (LENGTH) HIKE

Part of when we love.

Dec 2022

Net Art (Upcoming)


WHEN WE LOVE

A browser-based dating sim. Releasing 2023.

Dec 2022

Net Art (WIP)


OFFLINE/ONLINE

An autobiographical website

Dec 2022

Net Art (Upcoming)


AUTOCOMPLETE

Being a teenage girl is impossible

Dec 2022

Website (WIP)


ENGINE.LOL ALPHA 1.2

Featuring publishing, titles, effects, new layout, and new sounds.

Dec 2022

Tool


ENGINE.LOL MOBILE



Dec 2022

Tool


HOLIDAY DOMAIN GIFT GUIDE



Dec 2022

Writing


THERE IS AN INTERNET THAT IS MINE AND I WOULD LIKE YOU TO LIVE IN IT WITH ME



Dec 2022

Writing


WHEN I BLOG ABOUT LOVE

From posts over the years.

Dec 2022

Video


NAMING AMBIENT ART

Dec 2022

Writing


PHILIPPINE DESIGN LIBRARY

Texts on the Filipino design vernacular

Dec 2022

Curation


PHILIPPINE DESIGN REDESIGN

On the identity of the Filipino designer. With Lite mode!

Dec 2022

Website


WRITE YOURSELF IN

A blog about blogging.

Dec 2022

Workshop




THINGS TO THINK ABOUT WHEN BLOGGING



Dec 2022

Prompts


DEVELOPH

A renewal of the Developh website & mission.

Nov 2022

Website, Manifesto


TURNING YOUTUBE COMMENTS INTO ART, NEW YORKER

Feature on thesoundof.love

Nov 2022

Press


PLEASE IGNORE US

An invitation to listen to ambient music at Gather East Rock—while ignoring the
performers

Nov 2022

Ambient Performance


PLEASE IGNORE US (AUDIO)

Norns + cassette + field recordings + voice memo samples from conversations in
New Haven

Nov 2022

Ambient


FORUM FORUM

A forum for posting.

Nov 2022

Forum


MAYBE RADIO

A radio.

Oct 2022

Radio


UK RAVE COMMENTS

128 page wirebound zine of comments from acid, jungle, d&b videos. Pre-order
now.

Oct 2022

Zine


ME & ABORTIONISM

32 page zine on the underground market of Philippine abortion forums, reworked.
Pre-order now.

Oct 2022

Zine


AN IDEA GENERATOR (FOR A WEBSITE)

Workshop for Developh and full class site with exercises, resources, and more

Oct 2022

Workshop


MAKING A POETIC WEB(SITE)

Workshop for Developh and full class site with exercises, resources, and more

Oct 2022

Workshop


A MACHINE HELPS ME WRITE A POEM ABOUT FIRE

Published with the Yale Literary Magazine, Vol 35 Ed 2

Oct 2022

Poetry


ELEGY

Short confessionals on technology and ritual

Oct 2022

Newsletter Stories


THINGS I WANT TO DO

Particularly ones you can help me with

Oct 2022

Blog


ON CEILINGS

A life update

Oct 2022

Blog


FIGMA

I started designing Prototyping at Figma

Sep 2022

Work


MOVED TO SAN FRANCISCO

Sep 2022

Life Event


DONTLISTENTOTH.IS

A party series at Yale

Sep 2022

Event


MILK.PLACE POSTERS

A couple dozen new posters for MILK.PLACE.

Sep 2022

Posters


MILK.PLACE

Dozens of prints of media from my walls to yours. Online store coming soon

Sep 2022

Store


BLUISH LIVE AT COLLEGE STREET MUSIC HALL (FULL)

makes me so crazy though i can't say why

Aug 2022

Recording


AMBIENT RADIO TEST



Aug 2022

Audio (with Maybe)


YALE FUR FEST



Aug 2022

Poster


WW(W)

Website Website (Website)

Aug 2022

WIP


EVERYTHING PERFECT IS ALREADY HERE



Aug 2022

Poster


220814_010 NIGHT SOUNDS.WAV

A chorus of insects, back against a dock.

Aug 2022

Field Recording


MAYBE.PRESS

A Label focusing on small releases of experimental sound, art, & gathering

Aug 2022

Community


CLOUDWATCHING LOG 3



Aug 2022

Graphic


CHIA.NEOCITIES.ORG

A Directory

Aug 2022

Website


PHILIPPINE.DESIGN

Launching a design research initiative

Aug 2022

Research


AMBIENT 4 GRAVEYARDS



Aug 2022

Mix


MY 39 MINUTE PISS

An ambient mix done in my bathroom

Aug 2022

Mix




PHILIPPINE CASSETTE ARCHIVE

Preserving Pinoy tape culture, archival by me

Aug 2022

Website Archive


CLOUDWATCHING LOG 2



July 2022

Graphic


CLOUDWATCHING LOG 1



July 2022

Graphic


HOW DIY ARCHIVING DISRUPTS INFORMATION DISORDER

Philippine Collegian

Jun 2022

Press


SUDLER PRIZE

Yale University

May 2022

Press


I GRADUATED FROM YALE

Yay

May 2022

Life Event


MARTIAL LAW INDEX

DIY archival in response to the Marcos regime's censorship, archival by me

May 2022

Website


CHIA.PICS

A (mostly) digicam collection of personal photos

May 2022

Website


WEST HAVEN WAVES 220520_0085.WAV

Water laps across rocks, tides come and go.

May 2022

Field Recording


5-21-2022

A day in West Haven.

May 2022

Video Log

/)/) ( . .) ( づ i ♡ websites


I LOVE IT WHEN YOU (SLIDER)

love me too

May 2022

Website


ENGINE.LOL

A gamemaker that's a game in itself; a browser-based tiny tool to make and
publish grid-like collage stories. My Yale undergraduate thesis advised by Rosa
McElheny.

Apr 2022

Tool


THE (PARTIAL) ENCYCLOPEDIA AND TRAVELOGUE TO ETHEREST

Paracosm shit

Apr 2022

Artists' Book


CLOUDY.COUNTRY

Emailing you pics of clouds. On temporary hiatus!

Apr 2022

Newsletter


BLIND FAITH



Apr 2022

Game


ME AND ENGINE



Apr 2022

Game


ENGINE.LOL OST

Cassette (ed of 15) and CD (ed of 20) run of the ambient tracks on engine.lol.
Hand-dubbed.

Apr 2022

Audio


ENGINE.LOL INSTALLATION

My desk in an alternate universe.

Apr 2022

Exhibit


PRINTMAKING

Design at Yale invites you to an afternoon of...

For Design at Yale.

Apr 2022

Poster


BIYAHE

An ode to the Filipino commute.

Apr 2022

Mix


CREATIVE WEB CODING POSTER

A workshop with 3 exercises and 3 attendees. For Design at Yale.

Apr 2022

Workshop


YALE JAZZFEST

With Kevin Chen.

Apr 2022

Branding


AKO AT SI PEDRO

"Kinukwento ni mama ang mito ni Pedro Calungsod."

Apr 2022

Interactive Fiction


KLEINER PERKINS FELLOW

With Figma.

Mar 2022

Fellowship


IF YOU KNEW ME WOULD YOU LOVE ME?

A collection and a prompt.

Mar 2022

Website


SAMPLE PACK WORKSHOP

Sample pack making.

For the Open Music Initiative.

Mar 2022

Poster

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(RIP) BAD INTERNET

A dead music blog at Yale.

Feb 2022

Website


C'MON C'MON

For a WYBC x A24 screening.

Feb 2022

Graphic


THE SOUND OF LOVE

I heard of love in the YouTube comments section.

Feb 2022

Website


VALENTINE'S DAY POEM

Chia likes to think about love.

Feb 2022

Website


WILLIE COMMERCIAL CALENDAR

Potato Corner and Willie Revillame.

Jan 2022

Workshop


ME, MY PEN, & MY NEURAL NET

A Digital Diary.

Jan 2022

Website


THEOPHANY

The reason you would create anything is because you love it enough to see it
exist.

Jan 2022

Nonfiction


RECAP



2022

Blog Post


2021


I LOVE IT WHEN YOU

love me too

Dec 2021

Website


DESIGN IS FANTASY

A talk on imagination, the speculative, and fantasy for the UX+ Conference

Sep 2021

Talk


WORLDING A NEW PHILIPPINES

Fandom, making, creatorhood.

Oct 2021

Talk


EX-SILICON VALLEY MEANS NOTHING.

Blind faith in Western “prestige signals” serves exploiters, not
nation-builders.

Apr 2021

Writing


DEVELOPH CAMP

A fellowship for Filipino technologists supported by the Processing Foundation.
With Bianca Aguilar & Nicole Datlangin.

2021

Gathering


PROCESSING FOUNDATION FELLOW

Mentored by Dorothy Santos.

2021

Fellowship


PUNISHING OF THE PHILIPPINES

On digital extremism and the global south.

2021

Website Writing


A WEBSITE IS A WORLD

Borders, mythologies, emergence.

2021

Website Writing




EVERYDAY I

An exercise in asking.

Dec 2021

Website


HARVARD—YALE SHOW



Nov 2021

Poster


CHIAS.BLOG

New domain

2021

Blog


IF I FALL INTO A VERY DENSE CLOUD, CAN I DIE?

A very shitty cloud comic.

Nov 2021

Comic


ALL THE FUNERALS FOR MY PAST SELVES

On not knowing myself.

Nov 2021

Zine


BISITA

A recollection of devotion & routine in the only Catholic-majority country in
Asia.

2021

Net Art


KUMU

15 months of design for the Philippines' #1 social app

2021

Product


DEVELOPH WEBSITE



2021

Website


JPEGMAFIA — LP!



Nov 2021

Poster


TIMEKEEPER

A multiplayer decremental game.

2021

Idle Game


𓆝.° 。˚𓆛˚。 °.𓆞



2021

Net Art


PROXIMITIES

Can you feel the internet?

2021

Chrome Extension


CAROLINE POLACHEK – PARACHUTE



Oct 2021

Poster


THE LEGACY OF NINGGUANGPLAYTOYY

A live reading.

2021

Performance


PYRO IS NOT PASSION

A Genshin Impact take.

2021

Extensive Anime Essay


HU TAO ANALYSIS

An ambitious pre-release take.

2021

Extensive Anime Essay


GETTING STARTED WITH IF

Apr 2021

Workshop


KHAENRI'AH LORE PROJECT

Cultural exploration through Fandom & Genshin Impact.

2021

Community


SPOTIFY

A summer with Spotify's design systems team.

Internship


IN THREES

A self-indulgent collection of introductory lists

2021

Website

૮₍•᷄ ࡇ •᷅₎ა


STRAWBERRY JAM

Oct 2021

Poster


2020


ADOBE DESIGN CIRCLE SCHOLAR



2020

Scholarship


ARMISTICE

Experiments in poetic form on the web.

2020

Interactive Fiction


HOUSE

After Orteil's nested, a universe explorer in sound. Field recordings & rips.

2020

Net Art


GAY GIRL PRAYS FOR A GUN

My religion is on my birth certificate. My baptism was the event of the century.

2020

Interactive Fiction


OGH ENDERDRAGON FIGHT 1V11 DEATHMATCH



2020

Minecraft


FESTIVAL WEBSITE

Featuring an Art Market, livestream Stage (that I also managed), and a list of
beneficiaries.

2020

Website


FESTIVAL

A 12-hour online event with live acts & vendors completely for charity.

2020

Gathering


ENJAMBMENT, EXISTENCE

Love to slow cinema and video poetry

2020

Essay


CHIA'S ULTIMATE VIDEOKE

For a hackathon.

2020

Website


MICROGAMES



2020

Workshop Teaching


CAUSE.PH

A directory of pro-bono offers and funds through COVID-19.

2020

Website


DEAR STUDENT

Visual novel prototype on the Filipino student experience during COVID-19.

2020

Visual Novel


TELEPORT

A video-first fashion social network.

2020

Internship


WORKS OF HEART

A Filipino design studio.

2020

Internship


INTERN.PH

A then-database for PH internships. Also did 50+ free resume reviews.

2020

Website


2019


IBOTO.PH

Uplifting progressive politicals to the masses during the 2019 midterms. Reached
millions. Led team of 25+.

2019

Website


COLLAB WEBSITE

Designed the brand and site for Developh's incubator program.

2019

Website


COLLAB



2019

Branding


ROUND

All in life must come round. On collective memory and mapping.

2019

Website


NOOB SYSTEMS

An interferable stream of insecure CCTV cameras.

2019

Sound Art Website


MINECRAFT RAGE COMPILATION

Performed in front of a montage of Minecraft deaths, I slam coke bottles and
destroy a mechanical keyboard.

2019

Performance Art


DESIGN AT YALE

(Re-)founded Yale's undergraduate design community.

2019

Community


YALE WOMEN'S CENTER

Design and community at Yale's women center for 3 years.

2019

Community


STATEMENT



2019

Manifesto


RAPPLER

Design & development at Rappler. But not a lot.

2019

Internship


OLDER


FIFTEEN



2018

Net Art


EVERYTHING NOT SAVED WILL BE LOST



2018

Net Art


ME AND ABORTIONISM

On Filipino abortion forums

2018

Zine


SPEAKING @ GHC

On the keynote for the Student of Vision Award.

2018

Award

(♡ ᐛ )人( ᐛ ♡)


LASALLIAN HEARTS DAY

2018

Net Art


MENTAL HEALTH HACKS WEBSITE

Site and showcase.

2017

Website


MENTAL HEALTH HACKS

Organized a remote mental health "creation" hackathon with 100+ participants.

2017

Gathering


MENTAL HEALTH HACKS



2017

Branding & Poster


DEVSOCIETY WEBSITE

Developh's old site.

2017

Website


EDUKASYON.PH

I begged to work here as my first in-person internship and it was a daily 2 hour
commute.

2017

Internship


DEVED

Developh's educational zines.

2017

Writing Print


EXCHANGE

2017

Interactive Fiction


LOVE ALWAYS

A site to submit anon confessions around Valentine's Day, two years in a row.

2017

Website


THE DAY AFTER

2017

Interactive Fiction


GENERIC DATING SIM



2017

Flash Game

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ROGUE ONE SCREENING



2016

Poster


DEVELOPH

Founded a community for Filipino technologists.

2016

Community


NIRVANA



2016

Poster


FALL OUT BOY SONG SEARCHER



2016

Website


FORGIVE

2016

Media


BEHIND THE SEA



2016

Website


CHIASKI.COM



2016

Website


BLOG.CHIASKI.COM

Now chias.blog

2016

Blog


FLIGHT RISING EDM SIGNATURE



2015

Graphic


IA FORUM SIGNATURE



2015

Graphic


??? WEBSITE



2015

Website


KUZUPEKO NETWORK

2014

Website


DANGAN RONPA SHIPS NETWORK



2014

Website


ROBLOX ADVENTURES! DRIVEBLOX UNLIMITED CLASSIC



2013

Video


CHIA'S ANTI-RAGE PROJECT



2013

Poster


REVIEWERS

I made a website to host 'reviewers' for school and updated it at an ungodly
pace. I was too good

2013

Website


LUXIDITY.HANEURI.NET



2013

Website


SUPER DANGAN RONPA 2 CURSORS



2013

Resource


CIRRUMILUS



2012

Website


STILL ALIVE – PORTAL LYRIC VIDEO



2012

Video


THE DERPGAMES TRAILER 1



2012

Video


SKY BURST



2011

Website


WEB GROUP

In 2011 I started a 'Webmasters' club, taught people HTML/CSS, and made us all
badges.

2010

Website


COLOR DASH



2010

Website


POKEMON SCARLET

RPG Maker XP Pokemon Fangame.

2010

Game


DESTINYZBOND.WEBS.COM

My first self-coded layout.

2010

Website


BELOVEDHEARTS.WEBS.COM



2009

Website


COMING SOON...

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