by Alicia | Sep 27, 2017 | Press
From The New York Times, March 31, 2017 by Tom Vanderbilt: “The Netflix move seems another example of what Alicia Eler and Eve Peyser, in an essay in The New Inquiry, call “the tinderization of feeling.” The dating app Tinder, they argue, “is a metaphor for...
by Alicia | Sep 27, 2017 | Press
From The New Yorker, March 24, 2016, by Haley Mlotek: “The year before, the artists Alicia Eler and Kate Durbin had made a similar argument in identifying the “Teen-Girl Tumblr Aesthetic,” and Lindsay Zoladz, writing for Pitchfork, identified Lana del Rey as a...
by Alicia | Sep 27, 2017 | Selfie Press, selfiegeneration
From Vulture, January 26, 2014, by Jerry Saltz: “Selfies are usually casual, improvised, fast; their primary purpose is to be seen here, now, by other people, most of them unknown, in social networks. They are never accidental: Whether carefully staged or...
by Alicia | Sep 27, 2017 | Writing
From Hyperallergic, February 18, 2014: Professor Ann Collins Johns at the University of Texas at Austin was just as peeved as many people were about President Barack Obama’s knock on art history majors. So she did what any self-assured art historian would do and wrote...
by Alicia | Sep 27, 2017 | Writing
From Artforum, September 2017: A giant white gym sock covering a robotic arm that once functioned in a Detroit auto-manufacturing plant speaks in a deadening monotone to passersby. He talks about what it’s like to become useless and rambles about other topics as well:...
