Developh

Developh Developh is a research & art institution for critical and creative technologies in the Philippines.

We produce exhibitions, research, writing, and tools that engage with emerging technologies, AI, labor, identity, and creativity.

Kakakompyuter Mo Yan! at 2026: By the Mango Belt & Tamarind RoadJanuary 28–February 1, 2026silent green Kulturquartier,...
12/02/2026

Kakakompyuter Mo Yan! at 2026: By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road
January 28–February 1, 2026
silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin, Germany

The 39th edition of transmediale festival, curated by Neema Githere and Juan Pablo García Sossa, engages with different ways of understanding systems, cosmologies, and technologies. The festival invites both a geographical and theoretical shift in the prevalent discourse on technology, media, and our understanding of the internet as a world wide web. Taking place from January 28–February 1, the festival is conceived as a multi-situated, recursive net—a living network of practitioners from and around the tropical belt coming together in Berlin.
mo.yan (“that’s what you get for using a computer!”) is a never-ending karaoke party and exhibition platform for Philippine new media and net art. Programmed & presented by Chia Amisola

Works presented:
🎥 24 Hour Vlog, Kiana Fernandez
🖥️ Alt-Tab, Agustin Crisostomo
🌐 Am I Only Me When I'm Online?, Bao
🌹 Bahay na Rosas, Chia Amisola
🏫 Classroom 5C, tàtam & Ijah
🔗 Cybersquatting, Chia Amisola
🎶 Dahil Sa'yo, tàtam
🕳️ Every State Has A Hole, Leon Leube
🌀 Fragments of a Private Vacuum, Gab Brioso
💌 ILOVEYOU Shrine, Mac Andre Arboleda
🌅 Into the Jaws of the Horizon, Angeline Marie Michael Meitzler
📱 Jared vs TikTok, Jared Jonathan Luna
🎼 Just off the Key of Reason (The Ballads of St. Peter Wentz), Elise Ofilada
📝 Last Words, Memory Chisel
📡 Peer to Peer, Anton Romero
💾 PH-19XX_OS, Carmine
🪞 Reflection, Nikita Sacha / Ghostteeth
🧺 Vessels of Disappearing Craft, Isola Tong

Photos by Laura Fiorio

𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒍 ☁️ 𝑾𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑾𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒈Weather Weather Lang is an exhibition + programming series on technology & climate.We i...
01/12/2025

𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒍 ☁️ 𝑾𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑾𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒈
Weather Weather Lang is an exhibition + programming series on technology & climate.

We invite artists, technologists, & researchers interested in producing work on how technology mediates our understanding of climate and atmosphere, for a digital exhibition after March 2026.
We are interested in works that trace how the weather is sensed, computed, narrated, mythologized, or misread:

Apply at develo.ph/weather/opencall 🔗
Deadline to apply is Dec 15, 2025

🎁 Art projects, tools, presentations, or texts for an online (& potentially offline) exhibition
☁️ Projects can be new proposals or continuations of existing/previously finished artifacts
🍀 Curatorial + technical support offered, and a flat stipend of Php9000
🇵🇭 Open to individuals or collectives based in, or with strong ties to the Philippines
📆 Project development is from late December 2025–March 2026; exhibition will be after March 2026.

Stay tuned for upcoming public programming & presentations ☁️

Can surfing the web feel like a performance? How can we use our hand to mold and shape sites?In our next workshop, Chia ...
13/11/2025

Can surfing the web feel like a performance? How can we use our hand to mold and shape sites?

In our next workshop, Chia Amisola teaches 'Bookmarklet Instruments', an online workshop on using bookmarklets to perform the browser. Bookmarklets are lightweight Javascript snippets that live in your bookmarks bar that let you manipulate, modify, and reimagine websites for poetry or utility. In practice, we'll figure out what 'browsing' means to each of us, and how intervening on the web can be a form of desktop performance.

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ET: November 26 Wed 9PM-10PM
GMT+8: November 27 Thursday 10AM–11AM
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Sign up at https://luma.com/ggm625pl

+ Online on Zoom, limited slots; materials will be sent to participants afterwards.

+ ​80% of proceeds will go to mutual aid funds for communities heavily affected by Typhoon Uwan, with the remaining 20% to fund Developh's upcoming Technology.ph publication.

𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 🇵🇭Developh is a research & arts institution for critical &...
06/10/2025

𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 🇵🇭

Developh is a research & arts institution for critical & creative technologies in the Philippines. We believe technology isn't just a tool—it's a medium for cultural expression, creative experimentation, and critical inquiry.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨: We produce art exhibitions, publications, and educational programming that blends art & code, theory & practice, the computational & the poetic. We bring together artists, technologists, writers, and researchers in our work.

𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭: We've showcased Filipino internet art on international stages—from Art Fair Philippines (Manila) to Tai Kwun (Hong Kong) and WSA (New York). We've been recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30, and most importantly, we've supported hundreds of Filipino creatives and technologists in developing their practice.

𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡: Cultural institutions, community organizations, and tech companies who share our vision of a more creative, critical, and inclusive tech landscape.

We're just getting started. If you're interested in the future of art and technology in Southeast Asia, let's connect.

Learn more: https://developh.org/

10/08/2025

Kakakompyuter Mo Yan is a collection of internet art and websites about Filipino internet culture 𓂃˖♪彡𝄞₊⊹

📺 https://kakakompyutermoyan.com/ 📺
[ PC ONLY !! ]

09/06/2025

A new internet is on the horizon, and it’s powered by justice…

Developh, organized by Chia Amisola, is a community of practice working towards a more critical, poetic, and archipelagic internet by reclaiming technology as a tool for liberation.

KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN ("that's what you get for using the computer!") is their art exhibition and platform that commissions, preserves, and showcases works at the intersection of new media/art and technology highlighting third-world internet and networking cultures. After presenting 20 Filipino artists tackling themes of labor, identity, religiosity, queerness, corruption, nostalgia, abortion, immigration, and beyond, Developh is working on producing the next issue of KAKAKOMPYUTER MO YAN.

Discover the power of “The Creatives” 2024 Youth To The Front Fund Frontliners at the link in our bio!

⛰︎ ོ ༄ UX+ last year, in front of an audience of 2,200+ designers — Chia () spoke on an archipelagic internet. Today, th...
02/06/2025

⛰︎ ོ ༄
UX+ last year, in front of an audience of 2,200+ designers — Chia () spoke on an archipelagic internet. Today, the internet feels fragmented, fractured, like 'islands' of isolation. Against this online apocalypse, we might find ways to reclaim the internet, perhaps by inhabiting it as we always do... finding special pockets of community and care online. After all, Filipino labor & bodies already serve much of the internet today, despite all attempts to to obscure the work of our bodies and hands.

From crisis to collectivity, handmade design & site-making can move us towards an internet that is more communal: an internet designed for care, collectivity, and co-creation. Amidst surveillance, control, and extraction, we might re-frame the web as an archipelago of interconnectedness. One site alone is individual, but the internet is only what it is as many collective seas and sites of possibility…

Can our relationships with computers be more poetic, expressive, and intimate?

Aug 18, 2024
SMX Convention Center
https://2024.uxpl.us/
Thanks again to Aram, Alexis, and CSJ for having us and trusting us with a more experimental talk :)

♬ Speaking to design & tech crowds is always fun… it feels important & challenging to bring these types of ideas & thinking into industry. These motions towards a more intimate internet won’t be actualized if we only apply them to our personal sites our side projects – they best manifest when applied at scale, in the stark corporate spaces that need this type of heart & soul most; where this thinking is not at all in conflict with corporate interests, but might present interesting ways of thinking about more decentralized tools, platforms, and digital spaces…

04/05/2025

On Sunday, May 4, we mark the 25th anniversary of ILOVEYOU — the infamous computer worm that caused billions in damage at the login of the new millennium. What initially started as a thesis project to bridge the digital class divide triggered an unprecedented standstill in everyday-computing and business-as-usual, putting a stop to email systems of large banks, corporations, and government agencies like the UK Parliament and US Department of Defense.

A 3-hr show commemorating the virus that turned the world upside down, we invite the tech saboteurs, trade unionists, and cultural workers—speaking about strike victories, scam hubs, spamming Big Art, and the Palestinian cyberintifada—proving promise that the best hacks are still to come.

Hosted by Mac Andre Arboleda
Made possible by The UP Internet Freedom Network
Broadcasting on Manila Community Radio (6PM, Manila time) and Radio Alhara (5PM, Bethlehem time)

with special guests:
Che Tagyamon + Joanne Cesario
Computer Professionals' Union
BPO Industry Employees Network
Kiat Kiat Projects
Miriyam Aouragh
Nexperia Workers' Union

2 hrs of music by:
Silv-o (London) .o
NúÚ P3A☭3 (Bangkok)

poster by:
Alfred Marasigan

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