Research
From the third world internet to many worlds. We imagine an archipelagic internet and create the direction and tools needed to steer us there.
+ Our art & curatorial efforts always come from a position of demystifying technology
+ Collectively, we historicize third world internet cultures through the Philippine Internet Archive
+ Developh partners with artists, technologists, and researchers for prototypes of social simulations of agents in Philippine contexts
Philippine Internet Archive
The history of the Philippine internet is the history of the Filipino people, and the history of the internet is a history of Filipino people.
The Philippine Internet Archive is a research institute dedicated to preserving and documenting the digital work, movements, cultures, and art of the Filipino internet — combating revisionism and rebuilding our relationship to technologies that empower us as stewards of both individual & collective memory.
We prioritize communities historically excluded from internet narratives, and work towards teaching digital justice and folk archival practices alongside comprehensive preservation of the Filipino web.
Interviews, timelines, and emulation & preservation of artifacts from the Filipino early internet in development
Research ongoing on early telecommunications and internet histories
Founded January 2023
Steward: Chia Amisola
Talks
We present our research and practice through lecture performances, talks, and public programming.
Every Love Song in the World
A lecture performance tracing the intimacies of infrastructures — through personal narratives, archival material, and digital simulation. The piece examines Filipino bodies as technological interfaces, mapping connections across call centers, online platforms, content moderation systems, and virtual communities, interrogating how networks circulate desire, cruelty, and connection.
Chia Amisola
Modular Lecture Performance & Ongoing research on Filipino infrastructures
January 31, 2026
silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin
Prototype for transmediale 2026 →
January 31, 2026
silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin
Read more about the project →
Themes
Today, these broad problems direct much of our thinking and work. If these resonate with you as an independent practitioner or as an institution that might want to foster this work, consider reaching out.
We produce artifacts, experiments, and thinking that draw attention to, and determine alternative & better futures.
Archipelagic infrastructures
We need an internet that is decentralized and distributed, separate from its usage for domination and empire.
Our rich archipelago has many models of collective care and aid that we might draw from, from the community kitchen to the form of the archipelago itself.
Labor
From call centers, BPOs, data labeling, virtual assistants... what role do Filipinos play in technology, and how do our bodies serve as infrastructure?
Can we provide more equitable structures for our work that serves as the backbone for hardware and software services? How do we visibilize the Filipino body?
Performance & Power
The Philippines is a nation of performativity and power, from the stage of politics to startups to social class. Star power, fanatacism, and idolatry might be contested as we work to dismantle dynasties and populist exploitation. From colonial technologies like the aircon or karaoke to memetic phenomena, how do we unpack and contest these modes of control?
Gambling, POGOs, & Predation
POGOs have terrorized the landscape, leading to human trafficking & immense material violence. The all-in-one payments platform GCash serves gambling games in the same place you handle remittance. Crypto scams such as Axie Infinity prey on Filipinos.
Addiction is scarring the Filipino digital landscape. What can we do to improve policy and work against these tools?
Faith as & with Technology
Engaging with how technology may mediate belief, especially through the lens of Filipino Catholicism.
Furthermore, tracing the computational roots behind the rituals and objects we use as mediums towards the divine.
AI Safety & Alignment
Machine learning has been present in practical use since the 90s, and is rapidly accelerating, yet is continuously mystified. As these systems are put into wider use, we work against AI exceptionalism and unchecked progress to more carefully align these systems to human values and ethics, especially those values from the third world.
Intelligences & Co-creation
Expanding our views of intelligence and agency beyond the human, working beyond human scales and perspectives.
Can animist perspectives and Filipino mythologies help us promote these perspectives towards the planetary?
Research
Technologists & artists looking to spend time experimenting or prototyping new work around Filipino arts and technology, producing public programming thereafter.
We are especially interested in those looking to investigate our themes of interest, creating experimental tools and critical texts.
Coming soon...
Technology.ph
How do you begin to draw the impossible line between the Filipino and the technology they're enclosed around?
Technology.ph will be an open-access digital journal that presents and produces critical and experimental writing on archipelagic technologies and the arts.
We're currently looking for an Editor to help lead the publication, and are open to pitches... let us know.