Curatorial Projects

Grant Committee: Critical Fierceness Queer Art Grant

Grant Committee: Critical Fierceness Queer Art Grant

Since its founding in 2005, Chances Dances has sought to create a safe space for all gender expressions by bringing together the varied LGBTIQ communities of Chicago. The creation of the Critical Fierceness grant expands upon this goal by offering a unique opportunity...

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Curatorial Board: ACRE Projects & Residency

Curatorial Board: ACRE Projects & Residency

ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) is a volunteer-run non-profit based in Chicago devoted to employing various systems of support for emerging artists and to creating a generative community of cultural producers. ACRE investigates and institutes...

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Film Screening:  Short Sighted at the Smart Museum

Film Screening: Short Sighted at the Smart Museum

A video I made with Peregrine Honig, entitled Pink Flowers, Mechanical Rabbit (2009 [click here to view!] was included in Short Sighted at the Smart Museum on December 3, 2009. [event information] Short Sighted presents the mechanical wonder of the kinetoscope–Thomas...

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Response: Art & the Art of Criticism

Response: Art & the Art of Criticism

Response: Art and the Art of Criticism with Carrie Schneider University of Illinois at Chicago’s I-Space Gallery April 24-May 30, 2009 Alicia recently participated in “Response: Art & the Art of Criticism” at I-Space Gallery (April 24-May 31, 2009), a show that...

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Video as Video: Rewind to Form

Video as Video: Rewind to Form

Curated by Alicia Eler and Peregrine Honig "Video as Video: Rewind to Form" explores the medium of video through the use of painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and Internet-based coding languages. The show features work by nine international artists: Rob Carter,...

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Swimming Pool Project Space, Marketing & Copywriting

Swimming Pool Project Space, Marketing & Copywriting

Swimming Pool Project Space  Swimming Pool Project Space was a standby of the Chicago art community from 2008-2011. An artist-run gallery space opened by well-known local artist Liz Nielsen, the Swimming Pool – or “The Pool” as it was affectionately called – hosted...

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Flavorpill Chicago: “Video as Video: Rewind to Form”

Flavorpill Chicago: “Video as Video: Rewind to Form”

Swimming Pool Project Space says… Given its title, you might expect this exhibition to reclaim video's fundamental qualities, returning to critic Clement Greenberg's intellectual territory or that of the structural filmmakers of the 1960s. But this international group...

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New Media Lecture Series: Cory Arcangel

New Media Lecture Series: Cory Arcangel

New Media Art Lecture Series: Cory Arcangel April 11-15, 2006 Screenings, lectures and workshops with NYC-based computer artist Cory Arcangel (OC 2000) Oberlin College Oberlin, Ohio Oberlin Review feature article

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