Computer Dream Angel Girl Saint — Chia Amisola

​Event Details

​At the given time, please enter the Cathedral at this link: https://i-love-everything.com/world/cathedral/

​The stream is fragmented, the cathedral towers. Stretch your window tall, and play both videos at once.

​June 19, 2024 (Wednesday) — 8PM Pacific, 11PM Eastern
June 20, 2024 (Thursday) — 11AM Manila Time (GMT+8)

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​About

​Internet artist & designer Chia Amisola presents ‘Computer Dream Angel Girl Saint’, a performance and a lecture tracing the artist's Catholic faith, Marian apparitions, feminine technologies, surveillance & delusion, Ishmael Bernal’s Himala, and the nature of faith, truth, and presence.

​In an age where gods are indecipherable from machines, all bodies are heavens, technology is devotion, and delusions are divine. Weaving through the infrastructural role of technologies & relics, the feminine maternal roles of computers as containers, and the surveillant, performative nature of the girl-saint is a performance-lecture on gods, girls, gazing, and glitches. 

​The presentation previews Himala, a WIP durational desktop performance piece by Amisola, reenacting the mysteries of the rosary atop of the operating system & browser. An imagination and ritual of virginal software as a digital counterpoint to the Philippine Pasyón from the perspective of the girl-saint: the pure, sacred, transitory, and surveilled object of the divine.

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About Chia Amisola

​Chia Amisola (b. 2000, Manila) is an internet & ambient artist devoted to the internet’s loss, love, labor, and liberation. Through websites, tools, research, gathering, and performance, their (web)site-specific art imagines creation as synonymous with liberation. Their 'internet ambient' explores the internet's ecologies, territory, infrastructure, and intimacies. ( Mostly, they want to gather all the people they love in one place, and build an internet that could be that place. )

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They steward Developh (a community of critical practice for Filipino technologists, established in 2016) and the Philippine Internet Archive (nurturing publications & interventions preserving network cultures).

​https://chia.design/
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