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,...
by Alicia | Nov 25, 2013 | Hyperallergic, Online, Press, Selfie Column
CHICAGO — The selfie is an aesthetic with radical potential for bringing visibility to people and bodies that are othered. This week we present to you a few instances of empowerment that we caught via the #feministselfie hashtag on Twitter, which began in response to...
by Alicia | Nov 1, 2013 | News, Online, Press
Alicia Eler: Internet Ruined the Video Star by MATTHEW SPRUNG OCT. 31, 2013 Alicia Eler gave a lecture titled “Internet Ruined the Video Star” on Wednesday that was advertised as an examination of “how the internet has changed art production, consumption and...
by Alicia | Aug 24, 2013 | News, Online, Press
The Teen-Girl Tumblr Aesthetic* essay that I coauthored with LA-based writer Kate Durbin for Hyperallergic’s Tumblr as Art Symposium is featured on Vice.com. But if Jimmy is to be believed, why are are the Tumblr-ers blogging consistently enough to have...
by Alicia | Jun 4, 2013 | ACRE, Curatorial, News, Online, Performance Anxiety, Press
Thanks Chicago Magazine and Jason Foumberg for naming me one of the six young curators in Chicago to know! Here’s my profile: Alicia Eler Who: She uses the internet and social media to research, organize, and produce exhibitions and essays, on topics like...
