Chia
@chia.bsky.social
amiso.la, everythingi.love, developh.org .... internet artist, designer, aspiring field recordist; better reached on email — chia@amiso.la
recently found @chia.bsky.social's engine.lol. love how it has its own personality and encourages non-linear thinking+creation. 1st tried to plug in a prewritten poem but it didn't translate. then I worked w/in engine to write as I built. my game-poem, heat lightning: nellvin.itch.io/heat-lightning
heat lightning by nellvin
a collage poem about summer
nellvin.itch.io
visiting london for the first time.. <3 and had a screening in berlin today! ⤷ june 24 🎬 screening at hansabibliothek (Burning, cable film) ⤷ june 26 🌊 performance at v&a friday late (Burning + PAGASA) ⤷ june 29 🎼 performance/installs at shoreditch (internet ambient)
in middle school i had this friend i used to talk about our respective paracosms with — we went through a ream of paper tgtr drawing out timelines, characters, battles, politics, maps, etc. critiquing each other sync or async, sharing (naive) ideas for systems, playing little cross-over episodes
co-teaching a new class in nyc, july 24, 25, & 26! with celine nguyen. very excited !! ultralight.school/classes/rese...
Research as a Leisure Activity
ultralight.school
small tests for 'Burning', an executable desktop documentary I've been working on - Filipino seafarers and American empire, from the USAT Burnside laying telegraph cable from Dumaguete to Puget Sound in the early 1900s, to today's US-led Pax Silica initiative and conflict in the West Philippine Sea.
For once in my life can I receive a very kind sweet nice email that doesn't make me panic cry etc. My communications with the world are depleting my soul
"Beaver, transformed in two directions" by Leslie Mesei, 1967. From the book Computer Graphics, Computer Art
dont feel great about tech workers turned artists (w far more capital, mobility, access) moving into art worlds as the latter becomes higher-signal (or calms w/e career crisis they have) -- taking up already scarce grants, residencies, etc. from peers whose lives are materially organized around art
its probably easier to raise a seed round than it is to get a 10k new media grant
helping jury this open call! for net artists, curators, collectives, etc "Error 417 Expectation Failed is looking for projects that reject the longing for a mythic “old internet” and confront the politics of net nostalgia head-on." app due may 4, 2026 error417.expectation.fail/406/netstalg...
Error 406 [Netstalgia] Not Acceptable | Open Call
Our open call for projects Error 406 [Netstalgia] Not Acceptable focuses on the notion of netstalgia: a selective and idealized remembering of earlier phases of the internet. We are looking for projec...
error417.expectation.fail
hey, btw completely unrelated: here are 5 indie games that literally just came out this past month that together cost about the same as 1 brand new AAA game, and you will probably have much more fun with Oeuf store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/... Lucid Blocks store.steampowered.com/app/3495730/...
Oeuf on Steam
3D physics-platformer where you are an egg! Roll, hop and slide your way back home.
store.steampowered.com
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 4mo agoPS5/PS5 Pro/PS Portal will receive price increases on April 2nd. For USA: -PS5 $549 -> $649 -PS5 Digital $499 -> $599 -PS5 Pro $749 -> $899 -PS Portal $199 -> $249 blog.playstation.com/2026/03/27/n...
snippets from “Walk to School,” a short film where I recreate part of my high school commute inside a modded web port of GTA Sofia (itself a 2010 mod of GTA San Andreas). premiered last week at ALL CHAT organized by @chia.bsky.social at Tiat in San Francisco ♡
SF this Thursday: join us for ALL CHAT, an evening of performances and experimental presentations on games — no pitches 🎮 RSVP: lu.ma/allchat tiat @ 151 Powell St, San Francisco 3/12 Thurs 6–8PM Hatim Benhsain mut/moochi Jackie Liu Everest Pipkin Chia Amisola shm garanganao almeda Kaloyan Kolev
and then for ALL CHAT, an evening of game performances and experimental lectures at tiat, with a really exceptional group of artists. I’ll be bringing an in-progress live performed scifi film. This is ticketed but open to all, not just GDC attendees. luma.com/allchat
All Chat: Game Performances & Experimental Lectures · Luma
All Chat is an evening of performances, experimental presentations, and screenings about and with games. Join us for a series of ~20 minute showcases that…
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SF this Thursday: join us for ALL CHAT, an evening of performances and experimental presentations on games — no pitches 🎮 RSVP: lu.ma/allchat tiat @ 151 Powell St, San Francisco 3/12 Thurs 6–8PM Hatim Benhsain mut/moochi Jackie Liu Everest Pipkin Chia Amisola shm garanganao almeda Kaloyan Kolev
'Every Love Song in the World' A new performance-lecture on the intimacies and extremes of infrastructures. Tracing how Filipinos condition and inhabit technologies: from cableship workers on the USAT Burnside, the ILOVEYOU virus, the 8chan forums, to League's T1 Faker as a geopolitical fantasy...
recording of this is now up! performance-presentation of my practice~ www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rCg... grateful to rhizome & artwrld for having me alongside many new media greats im forever inspired by
Chia Amisola presents: How to Make Love (HTML)
YouTube video by Artwrld
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Chia@chia.bsky.social · 6mo agoonline presentation/performance tomorrow with rhizome & artwlrd — rhizome.org/events/aw-ch...
🌼My new game is here!🥀 "She danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died." alienmelon.itch.io/flower A game poem and interactive fiction about The End. You play the very last flower left on Earth, bringing peace to long dead soil. #IndieGame #VideoGame #GamePoem #Game
online presentation/performance tomorrow with rhizome & artwlrd — rhizome.org/events/aw-ch...
How to Make Love (HTML) with Chia Amisola
Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation.
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I've been working on a new painting toy for pixel artists, and I'd love to find a few folks to test it out and give feedback. I'm already having a lot of fun with it. Message me here or email! garrett @ brainfruit . studio
I've called the process of designing a system from an inspiration set "story interpolation" (middling term, admittedly). I love to use this slide from a talk Tarn gave at Northwestern's Progression Mechanics to illustrate the concept
Art and alternative games for the discerning palate, it's Indiepocalypse #69! -10 curated games for $15! -Zine! -Newly commissioned game by @deimosly.itch.io -Cover by @abbycali-art.bsky.social pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-69
