by Alicia | Mar 12, 2014 | News, Online, Press
CLOSING TALK WITH ALICIA ELER Self(ie) Portraits Upfor Gallery, Portland March 1, 2014 at 11:30am pst Alicia Eler will discuss the emerging grey area between consumer selfies and artist self-portraits in a lecture and talk-back. Mimosas and light refreshments will be...
by Alicia | Mar 12, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Selfie Column, Writing
PORTLAND, Oregon — The 2014 Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres knows a selfie moment when she sees it. In her second year orchestrating celebrity moments — she first hosted the Oscars in 2007 — the selfie makes its move into Hollywood in a way that’s far more serious than...
by Alicia | Mar 11, 2014 | News, Online, Press
This holiday season, ARTINFO Canada asked me to be a part of the art critics edition of their holiday guide. What assists me in my writing practice? Here’s what I told them: Chicago writer Alicia Eler wants nothing more than to smell sweet things as she sets pen...
by Alicia | Feb 26, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
LOS ANGELES — Shopping is a mundane, ecstatic experience. Enter any mall that’s filled with sparkly goods and products and suddenly we feel like ourselves but amplified. This environment only exists to reinforce consumerism and our opportunity to make surface-level...
by Alicia | Feb 24, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
LOS ANGELES — It must have been kismet that I ended up sitting next to Julie Niemi at the ridiculous Dave Hickey lecture a few weeks ago. As I searched for an outlet to use to charge my iPhone — which had died approximately three times that day, its life force being...
by Alicia | Feb 24, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Selfie Column, Writing
LOS ANGELES — Selfie culture is everywhere, and writers besides us here on Hyperallergic are actually beginning to take them seriously. Nimrod Kamer of The Daily Dot decided that rather than try to take a selfie with a celebrity, he’d wander Highgate Cemetery in...
