Developh is a research & arts institution for critical & creative technologies in the Philippines.
We are a community of technologists, artists, and researchers collectively practicing towards technologies that work for us, rather than against us. Reclaiming technology as a tool for liberation rather than oppression, we hope for more agentic, artful, and poetic ways of relating with technology.
Our work takes many forms: websites, publications, teaching, tooling — always as new infrastructures and imaginaries for the technologies we desire.
From the third world, to many possible worlds.
Arts Space
exploring cultural, political, and sensory possibilityCurating & producing exhibitions, artistic interventions, performances, and residencies for new media & internet-based art
Research Institution
reframing the tropical technological conditionForwarding theory & practice on critical technology with publishing, archival, and tooling.
Learning Lab
technologists nurtured with care, critique, & communityPay-what-you-can programming on arts & technology through talks, workshops, and classes.
Selected Programs
We're propelled by various short and long-term projects and productions.
Here's a selection of some of our recent efforts:
An internet art exhibition highlighting third world internet culture. Exhibited at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong; Art Fair, Philippines; and more.
Exhibition, Curation, DevelopmentAn online community archive of documents & media unraveling the 1972-1981 martial law period.
Website, ResourceFrom the pisonet, the aircon, the data center, to the POGO — an unraveling of the Filipino as a weather machine. An essay for the solar-powered server Our Shiver hosted at the Lab, San Francisco.
TextA martial law im(memorial) for the victims of the Martial Law period, commenting on the fragility of digital monuments.
Digital ArtA feature on our work at Art Fair Philippines 2025—and what it means to disrupt an art fair with song
Press
Themes
Ever-shifting, we're working towards the following questions. Read more on our research page...
Archipelagic infrastructures
Decentralized & distributed internets
Labor
Visibilizing Filipino labor in technology
Performance & Power
Contesting modes of domination
Gambling, POGOs, & Predation
Policy & design against exploitation
Faith as & with Technology
Engaging in faith & ceremony
AI Safety & Alignment
Slowness, intention, & ethics
Intelligences & Co-creation
A more-than-human archipelago
Join the Community
We're stewarded by a rotating company of artists, technologists, designers, and researchers collectively working to change narratives about technology, make better tools, and shape the internet we need.
Work with Developh
If you're an institution, company, or space that would be interested in bringing Developh's perspectives in art, research, and learning — we'd love to work with you. Here's what we can offer:
- Speaking
- Exhibitions
- Writing
- Curation
- Teaching
- Workshops
- Tooling
- Research
- Consulting