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Micah Alex

Micah Alex

I am interested in spheres of work revolving around community technology, archives, novel interfaces, tech histories etc. https://www.are.na/micah-alex/

Can you subvert YouTube's battle for your eyeballs?

Can you subvert YouTube's battle for your eyeballs?

YouTube's homepage is a slot machine: brightly lit, loud, ephemeral, provocative, uncertain, and there to make money for the house. Exposing its design principles is a surprisingly complicated task. Micah has a crack at it, investigating how a browser extension might take away the house's edge.

One of my art pieces that started off as a top down drawing of the coast but transitioned to a desert landscape when rotated.

I, Micah

I wander among waking dreams of digital lifeworlds and the unevenness of the future. I like doing things in sporadic bursts of energy - art, poetry, code-bashing, and writing as making practices. I think about media culture, science communication, and infrastructural resilience.