How selfies reflect a new generation of artists
From the Star Tribune on November 4th, 2017 by Alicia Eler: Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Star Tribune art critic Alicia Eler’s new book, “The Selfie Generation.” What exactly are selfies, and why are they everywhere? Whether you happen upon them on...
FOF #2558 – How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Selfie
From Feast of Fun, December 12, 2017, by Marc Felion and Fausto Fernós: Writer Alicia Eler (center) joins Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion to take a look at selfies and the impact they have on our lives. Photo: Fausto Fernós. Some folks roll their eyes at the mention of...
REVIEW: “The Selfie Generation”: Alicia Eler’s New Book Captures Our Digital Moment
From The Tangential, November 7, 2017 by Jay Gabler: Alicia Eler’s new book is called The Selfie Generation, but it could just as well be called The Selfie Moment. It captures the ambiguous promise of this particular point in history, when selfies are the coin of the...
The Best Readings & Talks in Seattle: Winter 2017/2018
From The Stranger, December 2017: THINGS TO DODEC 6, 2017 The Best Readings & Talks in Seattle: Winter 2017/2018 Picks from Seattle Art and Performance for December 6, 2017-March 18, 2018 by Rich Smith and Joule Zelman Jan 16 Alicia Eler Alicia Eler's The Selfie...
The Riveter
From The Riveter, April 23, 2018, by Crystal Duan: AN INTERVIEW WITH SELFIE QUEEN ALICIA ELER ELER’S NEW BOOK EXPLORES SURVEILLANCE CULTURE, BRANDING AND HOW SELFIES THREATEN PATRIARCHY. by Crystal Duan Illustration by Grace Molteni Alicia Eler is a selfie expert....
Gazing at our Reflections: Alicia Eler contemplates ‘The Selfie Generation’
From Newcity Newspaper, February 26, 2018, by Jerry Brennan: “Man should not be able to see his own face,” Fernando Pessoa wrote in 1915. In nature, he wrote, a person only sees their reflection by debasing themselves, stooping low to glimpse it in lakes or ponds....
Speak for your selfie
From Minneapolis Journal, October 5, 2017, by Eric Best: Visual arts critic Alicia Eler turns her attention toward selfies in new book It turns out there’s a lot more to those quick photos of yourself you take on your phone. Or so says Alicia Eler. Whether you love...
Understanding the Selfie: An Interview with Alicia Eler
From Humble Arts Foundation, November 2017, by Roula Seikaly: Clinton with selfie-ing women. Photo by Barbara Kinney / Hillary for America. Tweeted by Victor Ng Alicia Eler knows a lot about selfies. Named a “selfie semiotician” in the November 2017 issue of Wired,...
Sex, Privacy and Culture: ‘The Selfie Generation’
From Northeastern Illinois University's The Independent, January 30, 2018, by Amaris Rodriguez: In recent years the world has been taken over by the selfie; a picture that someone takes of themselves. They are used on every social media platform and even have their...
‘Selfie’-reliance: The word of the year is the story of our individualism
From The Washington Post, November 19, 2013, by Dan Zak: "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 artistic...
Art at Arm’s Length: A History of the Selfie
From Vulture, January 26, 2014, by Jerry Saltz: "Selfies are usually casual, improvised, fast; their primary purpose is to be seen here, now, by other people, most of them unknown, in social networks. They are never accidental: Whether carefully staged or completely...
This Monkey Selfie Court Case is Totally Bananas
The selfie shooter is the copyright holder of a selfie. But what if the selfie shooter is a monkey, not a human being? Nature photographer David Slater recently settled in the now infamous “monkey selfie” court case brought against him by PETA on behalf of Naruto, a...
iPhone X’s New Face ID Makes Selfies Mandatory
Selfies will never be the same again. Huge news struck the selfieverse this week when Apple announced that the long-awaited iPhone X (pronounced “X,” not “ten”) could be unlocked using only the owner’s selfie through a complex facial recognition system called Face ID....
Lecture – “Selfie Culture” at Cal State Fullerton
Thank you CalState Fullerton, Camera Absurda Photography Club and Julie Orser for inviting me to speak about my selfie culture research project.
“Me and You and Every Selfie We Know” at the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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...
“Why Selfies? Why Introverts? Why Now?” at Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival
The good folks at Seattle's Bumbershoot Arts & Culture Festival invited me to participate on the panel "Why Selfies? Why Introverts? Why Now?" at Town Hall. I had a grand time talking about selfies' relationship to the history of portraiture, photography and pop...
LECTURE: Internet Ruined the Video Star @ Oberlin College
I was recently invited to give a talk at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. Check out the description below; hope to see you there! Wednesday, October 30 at 5:00pm to 6:30pm Allen Memorial Art Building, Classroom 1 91 North Main Street, Oberlin, OH 44074 Alicia...
I, Selfie: Saying Yes to Selfies
From Hyperallergic, June 24, 2013, by Alicia Eler: Screenshot of Google Image “selfie” search results CHICAGO — People online have a lot to say about selfies: love them, hate them, feel indifferent about them, think they’re part of internet culture, a place we escape...