Okin ’19: Making good choices in an age of Tinder swipes
From Brown Daily Herald, February 26, 2018, by Rebecca Okin: Perhaps the only phenomenon that rivals the prevalence of dating apps on campus is the amount of energy we spend discussing them. A familiar scenario: At Ratty dinner, the “ping” of a new match breaches...
The Selfie Illusion / press mention on “Selfies, Snapchat and Cyberbullies” blog
I'm excited to be quoted in this post about selfies, snapchat and cyberbullies. danah boyd is in there, too! check it out: http://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/week-5-the-selfie-illusion/
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Smart selfie quote in Western Morning News UK [PRESS]
I am quoted in a British newspaper story about selfie culture. Check it out! But most selfies are not taken with celebs. As an American critic called Alicia Eler has written, selfies are: "Where we become our own biggest fans and private paparazzi." Read...
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ArtRx LA feature in Hyperallergic [PRESS]
Hyperallergic's ArtRx LA prescribed you a dose of me! Come to my Writer-in-Residence presentation this Saturday 10/25, 5PM at Adjunct Positions (5041 Coringa Drive, LA, CA 90042) where I'll unveil "Editing Los Angeles," a collection of jokes, short stories, and other...
That Capitalist Vision of Thomas Kinkade – PORTLAND MERCURY
From The Portland Mercury, February 10, 2016 by Jenna Lechner: "PAINTING ON PUZZLES, greeting cards, and even La-Z-Boys, Thomas Kinkade may be the most ubiquitous artist in America—and possibly the most commercially successful—yet he was largely ignored by the art...
Froot Loops – PORTLAND MERCURY
From The Portland Mercury, March 18, 2015 by Megan Burbank: "If the teen-girl Tumblr aesthetic is a new concept for you, congratulations! You're not 18! But also, a shorthand: Remember Lisa Frank? That purveyor of frolicking unicorns and big-eyed kittens emblazoned in...
Net Art Quotable on @netartquotes
I am net art quotable. Thank goodness! 🙂 Find it here: https://twitter.com/netartquotes/status/507677264998187008
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PerezHilton.com – Terry Richardson Has Been Called A Sex Offender, But It’s What He ISN’T Being Called Now That Will Probably Burn Him The Most! [PRESS]
Perez Hilton picked up the Buzzfeed Terry Richardson article that I'm in! THANKS PEREZ!!! And lastly, Alicia Eler, writer and critic of Hyperallergic's opinion was revealed as: "Terry Richardson makes images that ask you to look at them not because they ask hard...
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Terry Richardson Isn’t Much Of An Artist, Art Critics Say – BUZZFEED [PRESS]
Buzzfeed Reporter Jessica Testa approached me with a deceptively simple question: Is Terry Richardson a good artist? Here's my quote in her article: “Terry Richardson makes images that ask you to look at them not because they ask hard questions or question cultural...
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“New Media Selfie” for KC Studio Magazine [PRESS]
I'm quoted in Carrie Riehl and Ross Redman's article "New Media Selfie" for KC Studio Magazine. Check out the web version here: http://kcstudio.org/blog/2014/06/17/selfie/ Print version here: http://www.calameo.com/read/00000925634d8fef4d53c Quotes from me here: “I...
“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...
Selfie Column Featured in Psychology Today magazine
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
‘Selfie’-reliance: The word of the year is the story of our individualism – Washington Post
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...
Selfie Stories Featured on Gigaom & the Dictionary.com Blog
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/ * * *...
Selfie Lecture at Upfor Gallery in Portland, Oregon in Visual Art Resource
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...
ARTINFO Holiday Guide: Art Critics Edition
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 to...
President Obama Pens Personal Apology to an Art Historian / Hyperallergic + NYTimes
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,...
The Feminist Politics of #Selfies featured on Colorlines
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...
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Paul D’Amato Documents America, or Chicago’s West Side / Hyperallergic + Vol 1. Brooklyn [PRESS]
CHICAGO — Paul D’Amato’s large-scale photographs in his exhibition We Shall at the DePaul Art Museum offer a glimpse into the lives of ordinary people and urban landscapes on Chicago’s West Side. Operating in a similar mode to photographer Dawoud Bey, whose work...
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Coffeeshop Writer at Coffee Studio Chicago on ABC-7’s 190 North [TV]
I was caught on camera at the Coffee Studio, my favorite coffeeshop in the entire Chicagoland area! Here's the link just in case: http://190north.com/video?id=9015225