by Alicia | Apr 10, 2014 | News, Online, Press
My selfie column is in Psychology Today, along with this excellent #artselfie by artist and reality TV star Peregrine Honig! Check it out: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/positively-media/201307/selfie-use-abuse-or-balance
by Alicia | Mar 14, 2014 | News, Online, Press, Print, Selfie Press
The Washington Post quotes me in a story about selfie culture: Selfies are a form of vernacular photography, like amateur daguerreotype or Polaroid, says Alicia Eler, who writes routinely about selfies on the arts Web site Hyperallergic, and the prevalence of the...
by Alicia | Mar 13, 2014 | News, Online, Press, Selfie Press
It’s been quite a week for the selfie. My posts on selfie culture were recently featured on two influential websites. 7 stories to read this weekend on Gigaom lists two of my selfie posts: http://gigaom.com/2013/11/23/7-stories-to-read-this-weekend-77/ * * ...
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 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 19, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Online, Press, Writing
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 a letter to Obama on January 31,...