by Alicia | May 15, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
TULSA, Oklahoma — In the exhibition Unexpected at the Philbrook Museum Downtown, we see a series of 40 anonymous vernacular photographs from the collection of writer and photography collector Marc Boone Fitzerman, curated by the museum’s director Rand Suffolk, that...
by Alicia | May 14, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
LOS ANGELES — It was a hot Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles. Too hot. I dragged myself to a friend’s gray Volvo station wagon and prayed as I turned the key. The car started. As the engine purred, I cringed at the heat glowing off of the leather seat. I gunned it to...
by Alicia | May 12, 2014 | About, News, Performance, selfiegeneration
Who cares about selfies? Me and you and a lot of smart folks in Tulsa. On Thursday, May 8, I had the pleasure of presenting my selfie lecture at the Philbrook Downtown. Discussing the relationship between selfies, the history of self-portraiture in photography and...
by Alicia | May 12, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
LOS ANGELES — “You would have to be half-mad to dream me up,” the Mad Hatter said to Alice during her romp through Wonderland, that place where her body and state-of-mind regularly changed shaped. In this fantastical landscape from Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novelAlice’s...
by Alicia | May 12, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Selfie Column, Writing
LOS ANGELES — I was on an airplane flying back from Tulsa when I happened upon the phenomenon of mile-high selfies. Wifi is available up high, so why not take a selfie? Flight attendants are filling the skies with hashtags like #crewlife and #airhostess. Somewhere in...
by Alicia | Apr 30, 2014 | Journalism, News, The New Stack, Writing
It began with an overwhelming desire for Japanese food. Not to eat it, but to see if those delectable, hyper-real plastic Japanese fake food dinner replicas could be perfectly replicated. If it’s possible to 3D print KFC’s Colonel’s Original Recipe chicken, edible...
