by Alicia | Dec 3, 2009 | Curatorial, News
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...
by Alicia | Dec 2, 2009 | News, Online, Performance Anxiety, Press
Wanna talk about new modes of global curation? Chicago-based arts writer Alicia Eler and video collector Jefferson Godard have teamed up to curatePerformance Anxiety, a program of seven short videos by Chicago and New York City-based artists which can only be seen in...
by Alicia | Nov 4, 2009 | News
I was on edge last night, using every social media outlet possible to follow the Question 1 vote in Maine. It seemed like a sure-bet win for No on Question 1. If it passed, gay marriage in Maine would be repealed. Not only did Governor John Baldacci completely change...
by Alicia | Nov 4, 2009 | News
I was scared to check my Blackberry this morning. We couldn’t lose both Prop 8 in California and Question 1 in Maine, right? Wrong. The Bangor Daily News in Bangor, Maine, reported the following results: “Unofficial Results sorted by race for 2009 November...
by Alicia | Oct 27, 2009 | News
At my TweetCamp Chicago presentation on October 10th, 2009, I discussed how arts journalists could use the Twitter application Hootsuite to organize and keep up with goings on at hundreds of museums. During the presentation, I noticed two Twitter models at play:...