ARTFAIRPH/TALKS

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In an age where digital technologies reshape our reality at an unprecedented pace, how do we create—or dismantle—the mythologies that define our existence? Between data center heat, dying game worlds, link rot, the dead internet theory, and AI model collapse, worlds come and go. Artists act as modern mythmakers, navigating—or blurring—the boundaries between virtual and physical realms.

In this panel, we bring together artists who employ technology and worldbuilding in their work. Keb Cerda mixes augmented reality with traditional paintings inspired by video game worlds. Christina Lopez interrogates image-making, where perhaps building a world is simply altering one's perception of reality. Chris Fussner's tropical futurisms imagine divergent, distributed ways of living amidst climate collapse. Finally, moderator Chia Amisola's practice looks at the atmospherics of our online environments. This conversation will examine how technologies shape our collective mythology—imagining what new worlds might emerge from our digital debris.

Moderated by Chia Amisola

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About the Speaker/s

KEB CERDA

Keb Cerda has never seen a divide between art and video games. Growing up in an artistic household, video games and traditional painting all felt like natural forms of storytelling. Instead of choosing one, he brought them together, creating art that doesn’t just sit still but moves, reacts, and invites participation.

His latest project, Dopamine Dash, a motion-based video game projected onto a painting. It transforms the canvas into a chaotic, non-stop social media landscape. Players grab positive reactions to keep their Dopamine Meter from running out while avoiding negative ones, only to find themselves caught in a cycle that mirrors the exhausting pursuit of validation online.

For Keb, art is not just about creating something to be looked at. It’s about connection and interaction. He blurs the lines between traditional and digital, inviting audiences to step inside his work, not as passive viewers but as active participants in an experience that challenges, immerses, and makes them think."

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CHIA AMISOLA

Chia Amisola (b. 2000) is an artist and technologist devoted to the internet’s ambiences and its loss, love, labor, and liberation. Their games, performances, and websites explore the intimacies of infrastructures, the labor of tools, and the poetics of machines from the domestic to the divine. They organized Developh towards poetic technologies in the Philippines.

They graduated from Yale University with a BA in Computing & the Arts in 2022. They’ve exhibited internationally at the V&A and Somerset House, London; Tai Kwun, Hong Kong; WSA & TRANSFER, New York; CHRONIQUES, France; Künstlerhaus Bethanien and panke.gallery, Germany; and Gray Area & Game Developer Conference, San Francisco. They've been featured in The New Yorker, Forbes, Frieze, BOMB Magazine, et. al, and are a Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia recipient & Lumen Prize Winner. They are based between San Francisco and Manila.