by Alicia | Feb 16, 2015 | News, ReadWrite, Writing
Tumblr may soon have the Internet porn-blogging contest all wrapped up, now that one of its main rivals is zipping its lip about the dirty bits. Starting March 23, the Google-owned blog platform Blogger will bar users from “publicly” sharing images or...
by Alicia | Feb 12, 2015 | News, ReadWrite, Writing
Social media sites, so good at chronicling the ins and outs of our lives, have been uniquely terrible at handling their inevitable end. On Facebook, for instance, a reported death has long stuck friends and family with a static and almost ghostly memorial account—one...
by Alicia | Feb 12, 2015 | Hyperallergic, News
LOS ANGELES — Artist Jennifer Moon is not the first or the last to experiment with self-surveillance, documenting selfies of her every moment for anyone and no one. Her solo exhibition Will You Still Love Me: Learning to Love Yourself, It Is The Greatest Love of All,...
by Alicia | Feb 12, 2015 | Art21, News, Writing
Asher Hartman’s art is located at the intersection of performance, theater, and magic. He doesn’t practice hocus-pocus or the style of Gothic witchery seen in the 1996 film The Craft; he creates spaces for psychic, intuitive work that allows people to come together...
by Alicia | Feb 11, 2015 | Hyperallergic, News
LOS ANGELES — The LA-based artist and comedian Molly Jo Shea asked me where my Dell computer was as I took out my MacBook Pro to take notes on New York collective K-HOLE’s presentation at the LA Art Book Fair, organized by REDCAT. Shea’s comment was spot-on because,...
by Alicia | Feb 10, 2015 | News, normcoregoth, Writing
Chainsmoking cigarettes and drinking Absinthe with friends is so 1996. Real goths can’t reach spiritual enlightenment if they’re sitting at home ingesting toxins. Instead, they’re turning to health goth extremes, saving their blackened souls from an untimely death....
