“Internet Ruined the Video Star” Lecture at Oberlin College
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...
What’s It Like to be Tumblr Famous — Vice.com
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 identifiable...
Chicago Has Six Young Art Curators You Should Know – Chicago Magazine
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 adolescent...
Chicago Sun-Times Names Alicia Eler April 2013’s HOT WRITER
April's Hot Writer: Alicia Eler My genre: I am a writer, art critic and curator, focusing on visual art. My literary influences: Federico García Lorca, Joan Didion, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Andy Warhol, Valerie Solanas (who shot Warhol, naturally), Ariel...
“Influencers Who Inspire” Series Continues with Alicia Eler, ReadWriteWeb
We’re happy to share another powerful interview in our “Influencers Who Inspire” series. Today’s interview is with Alicia Eler, Reporter at ReadWriteWeb. We have always admired Alicia for her in-depth coverage of culture, tech and social media topics – things we are...
Keeping art and feminism alive on the Internet – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
When one old-media door gets slammed in an artist's face, another new-media window flings wide, thanks to art critic and social media strategist (and Twitter and Facebook chum of Art City) Alicia Eler. I love this story, from Chicago Tonight. Here's how artist and...
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Sylvia, Nicole Hollander and Alicia Eler on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight [TV]
How did Sylvia Cartoonist Nicole Hollander become a BadGirlChats blogger with a bustling online community? Social Media Consultant & Writer Alicia Eler discuss Hollander's entrance into the blogosphere on WTTW's Chicago Tonight. The original broadcast aired on...
‘Sylvia’ finds new life on a blog – Chicago Tribune
Two weeks ago, when Nicole Hollander started a blog, she immediately notified the people who protested when the Chicago Tribune dropped her comic strip, "Sylvia." She wanted her loyal readers to know that there was a new spot to find Sylvia's feminist wisecracks and...
Chicago Tribune: Nicole Hollander’s “Sylvia” Finds a New Life on Her Blog, BadGirlChats.com
Two weeks ago, when Nicole Hollander started a blog, she immediately notified the people who protested when the Chicago Tribune dropped her comic strip, "Sylvia." She wanted her loyal readers to know that there was a new spot to find Sylvia's feminist wisecracks and...
Nicole Hollander Sounds Excited Again – Chicago Reader [PRESS]
Alicia and Sylvia are two good friends of cartoonist Nicole Hollander, and together they have her back in the game. Sylvia is someone Hollander's known and drawn for 35 years, and they've been through plenty together. In 1990 the Sun-Times dropped Sylvia. But...
A Day in The Life of Alicia Eler on the3six5.com
I tried to sleep in today but I couldn't. Typical. It’s 6:30am on a Saturday morning, and I'm out on my back porch staring at the sun and watering my basil plant. The other weekend I took a three-day trip to New Mexico for a gay wedding, and forgot to ask my...
Chicago Sun-Times Our Town blog features Lido’s Caffe Comedy Bash
Chicago Sun-Times blogger Sarah Terez Rosenblum writes about Shak's Memorial Day Weekend Comedy Bash! here: Oak Park Comedy Bash Promises Comedy Goodness ShakAlicia, the comedic rap duo comprised of me and Shakir, will dish up the blended chickpea favorite with our...
ChicagoNow featured in Mashable article “How to Monetize the News”
ChicagoNow.com, the site that I worked on in 2009, is in yet another Mashable article about monetizing the news. Congrats to the team!
Alicia Eler named top Twitterer by RedEye Chicago and Huffington Post
@RedEyeNow added me to their list, redhot, and @HuffingtonPost put me on their list of Chicago People, which includes local celebrities, journalists and Twitterati.
ChicagoNow in Mashable article “Five Innovative Websites That Could Reshape the News”
ChicagoNow, the network of hyperlocal blogs owned by the Chicago Tribune Media Group that I helped launch in 2009—I was the Arts & Culture Community Manager up until February 2010—has just been recognized in the Mashable article "Five Innovative Websites That...
Interview for “The State of the (Visual) Art” in Newcity Newspaper
Where is art criticism headed? What role do social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook play in its growth? Is it the end of print media all together? This week I had the pleasure of discussing these questions with Newcity Art Editor Jason Foumberg for his...
PRESENT Magazine Features WIDOW Magazine
Designed to be a fashion magazine aesthetically and functionally, the inside cover features a table of contents and credits: the front cover calligraphy is by Yohan “Scribbles” and the back cover art by Maiko Kuzunishi. Further inside the publication, readers will...
Bad At Sports: CHICAGO CURATORS’ “PERFORMANCE ANXIETY” ON SOUVENIRS FROM THE EARTH TV
Wanna talk about new modes of global curation? Chicago-based arts writer Alicia Eler and video collector Jefferson Godard have teamed up to curatePerformance Anxiety, a program of seven short videos by Chicago and New York City-based artists which can only be seen in...
“Video as Video: Rewind To Form” Lecture and Screening at Oberlin College Art Department
This Thursday March 12th at 4:30pm in Classroom 1, critic/curator Alicia Eler (OC ’06) and artist Peregrine Honig will lecture on their recent curatorial project “Video as Video: Rewind to Form,” which opened at Swimming Pool Project Space in Chicago in September...
Newcity Newspaper: Review of “Video as Video: Rewind to Form”
RECOMMENDED If you haven’t been to Albany Park’s new art gallery, Swimming Pool, the current show, “Video as Video: Rewind to Form,” is the perfect excuse for a Saturday outing (Saturday being the only day this independent space is open to the public). The curators...