Monday 29th June, 7 — 10pm: Chia Amisola x HERVISIONS

HERVISIONS returns with an immersive installation of works by New York-based visual artist Chia Amisola, alongside an intimate performance Internet Ambient, book launch and artist/curator Q&A at Shoreditch Arts Club.

Chia Amisola works with the computer desktop as a site of performance, composition, and encounter. Across handcoded websites, custom scripts & controllers, and recorded gestures, these screenings collect three years of performances captured directly from the artist's desktop. Hints of interfaces surface & recede, reconfigured into densely intimate, shifting landscapes shaped by both generative processes and manually-triggered action.

​​​​Can hypertext be a mode of performance? Each scene is composed like an individual poem: textually dense systems that demand friction, further complicated by the artist moving between multiple desktops and works. The reader becomes the author, collapsing distinctions between automation and performance.

Private RSVPs and members of Shoreditch Arts Club only.

Chia Amisola is devoted to the internet's loss, love, labor, and liberation, particularly of the third world experience. An artist & technologist, they unravel systems and narratives that condition & emerge from technology, and the intimacies & infrastructures beneath them. Their 'internet ambient' works build dense, durational, hypertextual worlds that entangle Philippine specificity and universal conditions.

Performance — "Internet Ambient"

~30-35 minutes

Surveying over a dozen pieces from the last three years, Chia Amisola performs the browser, turning an everyday interface into something between a film and a poem. Their 'internet ambient' works entangle the personal and the universal, finding intimacy at the margins of the internet: mixing the handmade with the programmatic, moving between small poems to massive datasets. On the desktop, productivity software and glitches become poetic forms, and hypertexts blur the line between author and reader. The stories they tell are drawn from processions, internet forums, white papers, apparitions, found poems, databases, and archives—using the accumulation of the internet to write its future.

The works performed can be experienced online as games or literary pieces: a short program of pamphlets invites visitors to try them for themselves at home, perhaps with a new way of reading on the internet.

Members have access to all events in our programme.