Weaving Puso with Isola Tong
Developh is a community of practice working towards poetic & critical technologies.
We're building towards an archipelagic, handmade internet that reflects the third world internet. We dream of reclaiming technology as a tool for liberation rather than oppression.
Currently, we're running KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN, an exhibition & platform highlighting third world internet cultures through commissions of new media / art x technology works; and the Philippine Internet Archive, focused on publishing & preservation. ( Watch our latest talk on the Filipino internet. )
In an age of algorithmic anxiety, invisible labor, online repression, and digital injustice—we imagine what more archipelagic internets & technologies could look like: interdependent, ecological, expansive.
Recently
- 10.24 Researching Roblox Filipino Catholics for the Magic Circles Residency, Queen's University Canada
- 09.24 Angel Martinez writes about KMY for Esquire
- 09.24 Third world internet art talk at Gray Area Festival, San Francisco
- 09.24 KMY! on view at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
- 09.24 Speaking at UX+ Conference at SMX, Manila
Upcoming
- 2025 Launching our new art & technology Fellowship, teaching an 'Archipelagic Internets' class, and assembling a Tropical Internet Reader in the next year
Kakakompyuter Mo Yan!
An exhibition on Filipino networking & internet cultures in the form of a neverending karaoke party. Featuring 20 browser-born works from Filipino artists.
Exhibited internationally in New York (WSA), Hong Kong (Tai Kwun), and Manila (Space63).
2024 Dry Season Talks
Conversations with designers whose practices invoke memory, objects, & ritual: Sasha Magallona, Vanilla Arucan, Rachel Chak, Bao, and Chia Amisola.
Martial Law Index
An online community archive of Martial Law documents, scraped and compiled from free-floating Drives.
Workshops
Since 2016, we've been running workshops on programming, design, research, and practice for technologists, artists, designers, and students alike.
Talks
Our Founder, Chia Amisola has spoken dozens of times on our mission towards a more poetic, critical web internationally.
Audiences include: DEMO2024 for Rhizome x NEW INC, New York; UX+ Conference, Manila; Grace Hopper Celebration, Texas; Hopper Down Under, Australia; etc.
Philippine Internet Archive
Dedicated to Filipino internet history, culture, media, and preservation through publishing, programming, and speculation.
Full past archive coming soon... thanks <3 in the meantime, take a look at it here
Manifesto
Unedited clipping from our 2023 manifesto—
This era of computation promised us salvation. While it has failed us in many ways, it has also brought us joy and potential. We grew up on Facebook & within computer cafes and watched the nation fall on the very same platforms.
There is a place for love in technology that we’ve felt, closer than anyone else can as people who have been most enclosed and subject to it, and there is also a place for destruction and harm. Community and connection are central to how we have interfaced with technology, and we believe that care, poetry, and co-creation may be attained through the web once it is reclaimed. It is to this understanding that we are most hopeful. We have been left behind but resolve to find a new world for us.
Collaborate with us
We're happy to discuss collaborations with likeminded individuals & groups; please note that we don't offer unpaid development labor, and are more interested in education, research, publishing, and arts. Reach out to Chia.
Support us
Since 2016, we've been paying out of our own pockets and pay all of our artists and speakers. If you find our work valuable, we'd appreciate your patronage either monetarily or in-kind.