Sights & Sounds: Chia Amisola

Mar 24, 2023

Common Discourse is a project designed to help others (and ourselves) think through creativity, focus, and intentional work—from Alex Tan & Alice Otieno.

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Chia Amisola is a Filipino designer and (ambient) digital artist. Their practice explores world making on the internet as a means to construct spaces, systems and tools for communal care. Across their websites, designs and writing, they investigate the possibility of a world where creation is synonymous with liberation.

I’ve loved discovering the various micro sites Chia has worked on while meandering through are.na rabbit holes. A few of my favourites so far have been:

Here’s what they shared with us with us this week!

— Alice

Sights —

i bought a lot of used vhs tapes off ebay. all on top of each other (there are 98 of them), the stack is taller than me (4'11"). i have slowly been playing through them in the background on my crt setup here; mostly old commercials, news clippings, and strange home video tapes.

field recording trip at golden gate park

and a website still life of the tulips i saw, of course

scanned my ddj400 with my notes app (a must in every designer's room), i do bring it out to play at times — so stickers keep falling out and new ones come in, a living rotation

http://theatreorgans.com/hammond/keng/kenhtml/OrganistFamouseInOwnCountry&Internationally.htm

Sounds —

i capture conversation between two kids trying to escape the gates of a museum

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