Micah Alex
@khattamicah.xyz
I sometimes think about community technology, archives, novel interfaces and tech histories
Archie - Annotate and publish your small archive An attempt at putting the four parts of a IIIF setup - serving the image, making the manifest, storing the annotations, hosting the result - into one window. https://khattamicah.xyz/archie/
Commonplace: A notebook for the Internet This works for people whose work is cross-internet by nature, living on Figma, on YouTube, on GitHub, on other people's domains. You shouldn't have to move it all into one platform to show it. https://khattamicah.xyz/commonplace-a-notebook-for-the-internet/
Kim Tae-ri is my Shah Rukh Khan What does it mean for me to become a fan https://khattamicah.xyz/kim-taeri-is-my-srk/
Translategate: The ghost in the Machine There is a ghost in Google Translate and it survived the AI era https://khattamicah.xyz/translategate-ghost-in-the-machine/
33 going on 30 going on 13 How to feel like you are at the correct age https://khattamicah.xyz/33-30-13/
Can you subvert YouTube's battle for your eyeballs? I am going to analyse YouTube's homepage interface and investigate the potential impact of a extension called Dearrow in making the homepage less ephemeral and sensationalist. https://khattamicah.xyz/can-you-subvert-youtube/
How to do counter-UI/UX design Interfaces help manipulate your sense of reality. As a designer/developer who is part of the plural "user" being manipulated, you need a better curriculum than "Design Thinking" https://khattamicah.xyz/counter-design/
How to simply set up IIIF images for your small archive I explore IIIF as a web-standard to host large scale media archive that are backed by IIIF https://khattamicah.xyz/iiif-images/
Maps of Hyderabad Cinema History This was a project to create print-ready maps of the cinema halls that existed in Hyderabad from 1936 to 2018. https://khattamicah.xyz/mapping-history-of-cinema/
Speculative Storytelling in Wayanad This was the output of a 5-week course in Wayanad in Kerala, India in the aftermath of the floods of 2018. The Intervention is an educational tool that asks, How it is possible to build aspirations fo… https://khattamicah.xyz/speculative-storytelling-in-wayanad/
Portfolio - Workshops, Classes, Panels and Publications A list of the Workshops, Classes, Panels and Publications that I organized, spoke, wrote https://khattamicah.xyz/portfolio-workshops-classes-panels-and/
Papad - Community Audio Knowledge Archives Papad is designed to be used by community-based practitioners to store and access knowledge bases. We were running it over a decentralised community network of workstations for health and research applications. https://khattamicah.xyz/papad/
Art that I make Posters and painting I did for different projects https://khattamicah.xyz/my-art/
Publications A list of the pieces that I wrote, co-wrote and edited https://khattamicah.xyz/list-of-publications/
How I use speculative design I use Speculative design methods to inquire different questions. https://khattamicah.xyz/how-i-use-speculative-design-in-my-practice/
Seeing, Being, Doing: design I, co-taught a four month course on responding as a creative practitioner to places where humans and non-humans gather through place-based design research methods. https://khattamicah.xyz/facilitating-a-design-studio/
Establishing a community network I created a speculative framework to imagine a long-term sustainable community network and its stakeholders https://khattamicah.xyz/establishing-a-community-based-generative-wifi/
The Lived Experience Project Explore the journey of creating a robust knowledge infrastructure to enhance the livelihoods of persons with disabilities through the Lived Experience Project. https://khattamicah.xyz/enableindia-le/
Pune Covid Relief Website deployed for dissemination of covid-19 resources https://khattamicah.xyz/pune-covid-relief/
Milli - Connect and Annotate your Archives Milli was an open-source platform designed to make archives more democratic in the described and annotated ways. The core was to achieve this using the W3C Web Annotation Standard and to see how different archival descripti… https://khattamicah.xyz/milli/
Feeling through the Cities - Koramangala A poetic reflection on the hidden rhythms and overlooked details of daily life in Koramangala, Bangalore. https://khattamicah.xyz/koramangala/
Selecting tools for Indian Collectives When selecting tools for use by the collectives I worked with in India, we had to consider the following factors due to the unique context and limited resources available https://khattamicah.xyz/checklist-for-selecting-tools-for-indian/
The Imposter Among Us This is a reading list from a discussion on "How do platforms compel/enable the manufacturing of "truth" and "ignorance"? And what does that mean in the context of live-streaming politicians" https://khattamicah.xyz/the-imposter-among-us/
Care-full Collectives and their Care Practices I explore the intricate relationship between care, collaboration, and networks within various collectives, delving into my experiences in Team YUVAA, Living Labs Network and Forum… https://khattamicah.xyz/carefull-collectives-and-their-care-practices/
Caste and Education Geospatially in Rural Bihar A transdisciplinary research project in collaboration with Project Potential Trust, Kishanganj, delving into the impact of the caste system on education and societal structures in rural Bihar. https://khattamicah.xyz/caste-and-education/
Antarsam: Speculative Fiction about a different Internet The Antarsam project is a speculative exploration into alternate histories and potential futures, inspired by ecological systems, technological artifacts, cultural … https://khattamicah.xyz/antarsam-exploring-alternate-histories-and-futures/
The Disenfranchisement of Paniyas in Kerala By studying the literature around the Paniya tribe, I cover topics such as population, caste names and structures in Wayanad, periods of Paniya history, inter-tribal disparity, work a… https://khattamicah.xyz/the-disenfranchisement-of-adivasis-in-kerala/
Habba In my internship with Habba in 2018, I undertook the task of redesigning their website to improve user experience and highlight the unique aspects of their platform. The goal was to create an engaging interface that effectively communicated the values… https://khattamicah.xyz/habba-redesign/