https://withfriends.co/event/20040171/living_room_light_exchange_may_2024

https://grayarea.org/event/internet-ambient-workshop-with-chia-amisola/

https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?ticketing=apicc

https://usurpatormag.com/A-Website-Can-Be-A-Poem-w-Chia

San Francisco-based internet artist Chia Amisola says the website reflects the struggle for people to go beyond ‘a passive recognition of ’ committed during Martial Law

‘Ang Bantayog’ website hopes to rethink how we remember Martial Law

https://grayarea.org/event/chia-amisola-my-computer-never-asks-me-how-many-computers-i-had-before/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkslRzO5lUo

https://i-love-everything.com/performance.html

https://index-space.org/products/if-you-knew-me-would-you-love-me

A website is an act of demanding space for yourself and the people you love and constantly tending that space. It's a way of naming: to take on a URL and courageously ask to be witnessed, visited. I understand certain sites that I frequent as continuous labors of love, whether they're directed to a specific person or something broader. I see making websites and making in general as nothing more than a way of asking to be loved.

https://escapethealgorithm.substack.com/p/why-arent-there-more-websites-about

Tiny awards, tiny prize, tiny trophy, big love

Tiny Awards

Chia Amisola (b. 2000, Manila, Philippines) is an internet & ambient artist invested in the love, loss, & liberation of the internet.

Chia Amisola

A performance of the browser, the browser as performance.

Index • If You Knew Me Would You Love Me

https://www.index-space.org/products/if-you-knew-me-would-you-love-me

https://config.figma.com/agenda?session=5aad79f0-7a17-4d7a-9215-081de79690e1

That reminds me of rituals again. What is the bread or the website as an artifact or a screenshot in the Wayback Machine alone? A website is not that. It’s not just a package of code, it’s a place where people gathered, it’s a place that was referenced by a network of other sites before its links rotted away. It was once a place where there was life. And when we pass down the ritual of gathering, that's a truer form of preserving. We can't expect for a piece of bread or the site to last forever. But the act of feeding and living onwards will continue to be the most important thing about it.

Web search promised to resolve questions. Instead, it's brought on a soft apocalypse of a truth that's reduced to trivia.

Google's Answer Box Changed the Meaning of Information

https://www.wired.com/story/google-answer-box-information-search/

https://i-love-everything.com/world/cathedral/

🍥 come see me share my new performance work in oakland tomorrow! hmm why do my slides look so weird?

Brett Amory and Tuğçe Evirgen Özmen will also be speaking on their practice
https://withfriends.co/event/20040171/living_room_light_exchange_may_2024

'Internet ambient' Workshop — 5–7PM on July 26
On making sound ecologies with websites, turning our machines into rains & flowers & suns... no coding experience required :)

⤷ https://grayarea.org/event/internet-ambient-workshop-with-chia-amisola/
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next saturday ! ✰ hosting a poetic web workshop + networked performance where we turn our computers to flowers, rain, suns, etc & make internet ambient together <3

♬ san francisco, may 4 ⚘ 1:30–3:30PM at somarts
〰️ tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?ticketing=apicc

Love this from @chia – “It’s in specific, smaller scale communities that we get people to care for things deeply, truly feel connected with their technologies and communities, and subsequently put in the effort to invest in these spaces and put in the labor of maintenance.”

spoke with anna of usurpator for this lovely interview—"a website can be a poem / a poem can be a website"

for your reading / listening pleasure..!!
💌 https://usurpatormag.com/A-Website-Can-Be-A-Poem-w-Chia

A made a 'non-memorial' for the 51st anniversary of martial law, and shared a bit about it with Rappler.

“I am most interested in commemoration as catalysts and interventions. [T]his is an exercise of collective memory more than the impossible act of replicating memory itself.”

Hi, if you're in San Francisco I'm doing a desktop performance + ambient show + poetry reading (or somewhere in between) next Friday ♡

July 26 (Friday) 8PM, Gray Area (Mission)
🎶 https://grayarea.org/event/chia-amisola-my-computer-never-asks-me-how-many-computers-i-had-before/

snippets from guest lectures at usc, parsons, upenn, & cooper union the past months! 💓 very honored to have shared my practice & projects exploring a more poetic, ambient & intimate internet through creative code, toolmaking, archives, & more :~)

earlier in feb i celebrated a year of the site 'the sound of love' by making 2 books! 128 pages filled with handpicked youtube comments left under love songs & uk garage/raver nostalgia mixes 💿🤍📢

finally putting these books up! take your pick 💌 
https://thesoundof.love/shop

( selected sites, sounds, and talks from 2023 )
〰️ https://chias.blog/2024/recap/

For the New Museum's DEMO2024 festival, I spoke on the ILOVEYOU virus & and my new art exhibition celebrating Filipino internet & networking culture—KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN!

It's a little performance/poem-like, give it a watch ~ 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkslRzO5lUo

desktop performances from the past months
https://i-love-everything.com/performance.html

spent time at dweb camp last week and did my first ever performance of my net art piece 'We Are Only Moving Towards Each Other' ( https://whenwe.love/moving ) under the redwoods.. it was so dreamy, can't wait to perform it again

started compiling a list of talks, presentations, & 'performances' i've been giving ~ https://ambient.institute/library 🤍📂

Internet ambient in San Francisco ♡
performing some new born-browser work this thursday 7pm! 🫧 longing, loops, letters — reading websites, playing live music, networked performance etc

〰️ Tickets + Details: https://index-space.org/products/if-you-knew-me-would-you-love-me

“I see making websites and making in general as nothing more than a way of asking to be loved.”

from my conversation with @chia

https://escapethealgorithm.substack.com/p/why-arent-there-more-websites-about

if you know & love a website that makes the internet feel small, handmade, fun, alive, personal, and intimate again — submit it to the tiny awards by june 23! https://tinyawards.net/

In Copenhagen for Naive Yearly today, where I'll be speaking on 'Domain Naming' 💗

an assemblage of fragments, definitions, and ideas on name / place / space / identity / site / authorship
( https://naiveyearly.com )

wip site.. to me, it's important to make your visitors watch all your links wistfully float across the screen until they softly disappear—testing patience as you wait until the clouds drift by once again

https://i-love-everything.com/

I’ll be giving an online Screen Walk next Wednesday, 12/13 at 10AM PT/6PM UK—a durational desktop performance of popups, feedback loops, & browser histories... I've been thinking about 'hypertext' as a mode performance as it is a medium.

san francisco! i'm doing an 🌧️ internet ambient 🌧️ performance on october 26th at studio 45.. a poetry reading, ambient set, & participatory, networked performance of internet art.. come by!

https://www.index-space.org/products/if-you-knew-me-would-you-love-me

come to my team's prototyping talk this config! would love to see you in-person or virtually 🍜

we're on tomorrow at 11am pt, right after the keynote 🍜 https://config.figma.com/agenda?session=5aad79f0-7a17-4d7a-9215-081de79690e1

birthday wishes
https://chias.blog/2024/remember-me

“[A website] is not just a package of code, it’s a place where people gathered… it was once a place where there was 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦. And when we pass down the ritual of gathering, that’s a truer form of preserving.”  
- from my conversation with @chia 

https://tinyurl.com/chiapart2

on the erasure of palestinian life & death under a digital occupation, by mara cavallaro

"...we, and our words, are part of a narrative war; that language is a tool, to be used for revolutionary ends; and that one of those ends must be a free Palestine"

For the Arena x Naive Yearly annual, I expanded on my talk 'Domain Naming' – a study of how "naming is placemaking", with identity & DNS alike embroiled with questions of language, control, imperialism, and territory...

ᝰ https://ambient.institute/domain-naming

For the past four years, I've been collecting YouTube comments left under love songs...

❤️ https://thesoundof.love is my collection of these – centering the love, loss, and longing by the stories we tell in the comments section.. now with 500+ comments + song recs curated by me

i had a beautiful conversation with elan kiderman ullendorff on love, websites, archives.. the first part of our interview is now up on their 'escape the algorithm' newsletter. <3 

https://escapethealgorithm.substack.com/p/why-arent-there-more-websites-about

not now babe im not done working on my mobile-friendly browser-based tool for simple cyoa interactive fiction games oriented around spatial navigation on a grid

In my first piece for WIRED's new software criticism column, I wrote about Google’s relentless pursuit of answering our questions and whether having our questions answered is what we really need.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-answer-box-information-search/

𝑴𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒔 𝒎𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆! 🍥🎰
Gray Area, San Francisco 
July 26 (Friday)

Workshop ❀ 5–7PM
Performance ❀ 8–10PM

Hosting a sound-site workshop + performing my desktop with live ambient soon ♡

RSVP ↓

got my schengen visa.. doing a brief 'internet ambient' tour in copenhagen, berlin, and manila!

performances and presentations on a more poetic, ambient, intimate web

⤥ https://chia.design/tour

a bit in love with the auto-generated chapters YouTube has given to my screen walk

performing new work in oakland this friday 🕊️
at living room light exchange w other local new media artists

https://withfriends.co/event/20040171/living_room_light_exchange_may_2024

Ambient Desktop Performance — 8–10PM on July 26
( Somewhere between a reading, a live ambient performance, & a hypertext memory... )

Tix ⤷ https://grayarea.org/event/chia-amisola-my-computer-never-asks-me-how-many-computers-i-had-before/
⋆.•🪷 𓅼˚⁺

hello.. 💗 I'd love to perform for you... i'm looking for offline or online spaces to do experimental + participatory + ambient performances / workshops / talks, as I pilot this new body of work for the world of the web... → chia.design/perform

♬ playing with two-channel online desktop performance 

experimenting off zoom, hosted in a tiny cathedral site — asked viewers to stack their browser tall (or rotate their monitor, or use a phone) to feel the screens

💒 https://i-love-everything.com/world/cathedral/

spoke on my practice around love, websites, and folk archival (and all of webmaking as a love language challenging the hostile web) w the lovely @at_elan for 'escape the algorithm'

𓆝.° ｡˚𓆛˚｡ °.𓆞 ·˙
https://escapethealgorithm.substack.com/p/why-arent-there-more-websites-about

(♬ volume on) comments left under love songs, from https://thesoundof.love/

🎰friday 🫨 me & exteeng 🎶 8pm at gray area in sf 🪽

performing an hour of a dozenish net art pieces i've made over the past 2 years, many new & unreleased! 

😇
https://grayarea.org/event/chia-amisola-my-computer-never-asks-me-how-many-computers-i-had-before/

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