Practice
All my work is devoted to the internet's loss, love, labor, and liberation, especially of the third world experience.
I’m interested in the ‘intimacies of infrastructures’ and the ‘labor of tools’, tracing technology’s relationship with agency, ambience, and atmosphere across spaces domestic and divine. I often make sites, tools, performances, lectures, and installations.
Presently, I’m working on hypertexts and software that stretches what internet-native literature might look like.
I’m based between New York & Manila.
Selected Writing
Tropical technologistHimalaDomain namingOn a handmade webNora Aunor as networkA theophany
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Selected Residencies
CultureHub
NEW INC Art & Code Y10
Internet Archive DWeb Camp
Paul Dresher Ensemble
Gray Area
Selected Talks
On karaoke, GDC 2025On hypertext, SeoulOn websites, UX+On viruses + love, NEW INC
Lectures at Yale, Princeton, Parsons, USC, SFPC and more
Engagements
Practice
I’m an internationally exhibited artist.
I work with hypertext, performance, poetry, and simulations. Some selected projects:
everythingi.loveperformances, tools, and net art works that reclaim agencies and intimacies on the desktop through performance — this is my 'internet ambient' practice
whenwe.lovemassively multiplayer online loving game under a Neopets-like dating simulator where you date everything — this is Dwarf Fortress under the feminine gaze
infrastructur.esa tool for experimental making & publishing of hypertexts and internet novels; a new Eastgate Systems — this is the most literary & startup-like
Practice
Some other things about me:
- I was born and raised in the Philippines
- I moved to America to study Computing and the Arts at Yale University, where I graduated with the Sudler Prize (wearing a Weezer hat) and took seven classes my last semester
- I enjoy field recording, experimental music, and birding; and have many thoughts on silence and environment
Some things that excite me:
- Worlding, fantasy, speculation, and fantasy
- Atmosphere and ambiences in sound, space, art, text – what it takes to sculpt environments, and invite emergence
- Institution building and faith building
- Hypertext, narrative systems, experimental literature, and ergodic literature
- Tools, infrastructures, and systems
