COLLABORATIONS

6+

a women's arts collective, creates platforms for collaboration with Palestinian women artists, exhibitions, social exchanges, workshops, publications

"Making it Together", Bronx Museum  – New York, 2008
Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College – Chicago, IL, 2008
Exit Art – New York, NY, 2007
The Nobel Women's Initiative International Conference – Galway, Ireland, 2007
Al Hoash Gallery – Jerusalem, Israel, 2007
The Dairy Center for Arts and Culture – Boulder, CO, 2007
The International Center of Bethlehem – West Bank, Occupied Territories of Palestine, 2006
The Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah – West Bank, Occupied Territories of Palestine, 2006
Invent-L Conference 2007: Imaging Place – Gainesville, USA, 2007
Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Conference – Boston, USA, 2006

BLW (BeLoW)

artist-activist collective, exploring the political potency of speech in a culture where oral competence is largely displaced by media forms

"Rehearsals" in AREA Chicago, edited by Daniel Tucker and Rebecca Zorach –Chicago, IL
"Hopeless and Otherwise", curated by Valerie Imus – Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco
"A Meeting is a Question Between" in Pathogeographies, curated by FeelTank Chicago; durational public intervention – University of Illinois at Chicago, 2007
"Fragments of a Strike", Southern Exposure – San Francisco, CA, 2007
"I am going to tell you something no one can tell you who wasn’t there…" in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Issue 5, Fall 2007
"The Coalition of Inquiry into the State of the Future" – Invitation to a Hearing , with Think Tank That Has Yet to be Named, Institute of Contemporary Art – Philadelphia, PA 2007
"Play Back, Play Forward" in Summit: Non-Aligned Initiatives in Art, Activism, Education – Berlin, Germany, 2007
"Out of the Box, Into the Body", Epicenter: UC Darnet  – Riverside, CA
"Shooting Fred Hampton", workshops and performance re-enactments – University of Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, 2006
"Queen Mother Moore Speech at Green Haven Prison" and "Fred Hampton Interviewed by the VideoFreex" – Pilot, Chicago , 2004

common_places and the Center for Getting Ugly

on and off-line platforms for creative collective dissent

"Plausible Artworlds" with ten other international art groups – Basekamp, Philadelphia, 2006
"Walking and Not Walking", experimental seminar and walking performance – Versionfest.06, Chicago, 2006
"Walk, Talk, Eat, Talk Some More" – month-long multi-city collaboration, exhibited in Miss Mao, Blacklist Projects – London, 2006
"Calisthenics for Collaboration (or) Exercises for Labor Day" , workshop, Studio 27 – San Francisco, 2006
"Can’t We All Just Get Along? Counter-Cartographies of Playing Nice" , CFGU Open House – Tampa FL, 2006
"Walking and not Walking", durational, year-long walking workshops – Tampa, FL, 2006
"HINTS Riport", collaboration with HINTS, performance, Ludwig Muzeum – Budapest, Hungary , 2005
Itinerant archive and social platform : Vector Gallery – Iasi, Romania; Casa Tranzit – Cluj Romania; Dinamo Gallery and AK-57 – Budapest, Hungary; Various locations in coastal and central Florida, 2005
Monthly transmitter assembly workshops and experiments in pirate radio: Tampa, FL, 2005
Public archive and social performance on radical collective culture: Oliver Gallery, University of South Florida – Tampa, FL, 2004

OTHER EXHIBITS

2007

::Politics Under Fire:: , McGill University – Montréal, Canada
"Past Futures", with Cristian Nae, installation in Vector, issue 2; Iasi Romania –  for Documenta 12 magazine project, Germany

2006

"Alshaibi/Borcila", University of Stellenbosch Art Gallery – Stellenbosch, South Africa
"Introducing a Formal Axiomatic Rendundancy Theory of Art (FART Art)", performance and publication, Andrew Krepps Gallery – New York

2005

"Excerpts", Vector Gallery – Iasi Romania

2004

Public_Media_Space Festival Yerewan, Armenia
Salon Y Coloquio Internacional De Arte Digital Havanna, Cuba
International Festival of New Film and New Media Split, Croatia
Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth, Australia
“Geography Lessons(cont.): Three Landscape Studies and Counting”, Objex Artspace - Miami, FL
“Geography Lessons(cont.): Six Landscape Studies, and Counting”
Thailand New Media Art Festival - Bangkok, Thailand
“Touch Type”, Parsons Gallery - Paris, France

2003

“Geography Lessons: Border Crossing”, part of the “Border Counter” project curated by Multiplicity -
Venice Biennale, Italy (Utopia Station)
“Americana”, School of Visual Arts - New York
“ "Geography Lessons: Eight Landscape Studies, and Counting"”, Middle Tennessee State University
“Cuentos de mi Familia” collaboration with John Michernan Gonzales, ENLACE, seven public schools, Hillsborough Community College and the Ybor City Museum - Tampa, FL

2002

“Reload”, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum - Istanbul, Turkey
“guerillaexpo”, collaboration with the Autonoom Centrum and easyCity - Amsterdam, the Netherlands
“911+1: The Perplexities of Security”, Brown University - Providence, RI
“Ground Zero”, Museum of New Art - Detroit, MI
“New Directions”, the Film Art Index online collaboration
“The Naturalization Project: Installment #7”, USF Contemporary Art Museum - Tampa, FL

2000

“The Naturalization Project”, Covivant Gallery - Tampa, FL

1999

“USF Faculty and Alumni Exhibit”, USF Contemporary Art Museum - Tampa, FL
Alumni Exhibit, Monmouth College - Monmouth, IL
“Document (Buni Series)”, installation and performance series, Kresge Art Museum - E. Lansing, MI
“Preview”, Kirtland Community College - Roscommon, MI

1998

“Bare Bones Annual Exhibit”, Bare Bones Studios and Gallery - Lansing, MI
“In the Dark”, Buckham Gallery - Flint, MI
“Smith, Montes, Borcila” Jesse Besser Museum - Alpena, MI

1997

Soros Foundation Annual Exhibit “Civitas solis, Civitas artis” public art project - Calnic Fortress, Romania;

1996

“Deschideti Usa”, international group exhibit: Cluj Artists’ Association Gallery - Cluj, Romania
“Suprafete (Surfaces)”, Pantheon Gallery - Cluj Romania
“Cans/Sana”, collaboration with Justin Smith, Casa Matei Gallery - Cluj Romania
“Towards the Millennium: Art, Technology and the Transformation of Community” national juried public art competition; juror artist Suzanne Lacy, (jurors’ award) - Lansing, MI

PERFORMANCES

2003

“The Elastic Test”, installation and performance, Nickle Arts Museum - Alberta, Canada (collaboration with Robert Lawrence, the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society and University of Calgary)
“The Canadian National Anthem”- Alberta College of Art and Design

2002

“LOCAL Standard Test”, performance, American Studies Association National Conference “The Local and the Global” - Houston TX
“Hips, Lips and Skin Test”, performance workshop series, University of the Witwatersrand - Johannesburg
South Africa (collaborative workshops with Xhosa refugees and Wits University students)
“Frames, Borders, Limits”, performance, Brock University - Ontario, Canada
“How Can I Become Naturalized?”, Center for Creative Studies - Detroit, MI

2001

“Tracking Down” performance/lecture, Postmodern Productions International Conference - Erlangen,
Germany
“This is Not A Test: Critical Bodies”, performance - State University of New York, Brockport
“The Body at the Border”, performance, Performance Studies International Conference - Mainz, Germany

2000

“Citizen/Foreigner Experiments”, performance, University of California - Irvine, CA

1999

“Document (Buni Series)”, installation/performance, Kresge Art Museum - E. Lansing, MI

PUBLICATIONS

2008

"Learning Alongside: Audio Journals from Dheisheh Refugee Camp" in Third Text, special issue on Tactical Media. London and New York: Routledge

2007

"Playing Fields" in Social Dynamics. London: Taylor and Francis
"I am going to tell you something no one esle can tell you who wasn't there" in Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. Los Angeles
also published in Playback, Playforward edited by Manuela Zechner; exhibited at Graz Muzeum, Austria

2004

“Schiphol trans-” in easy city, Amsterdam: De Vrije Ruimte

2003

“The Field’s Edge: Africa, Diaspora, Lens” in Art South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, spring/summer

2002

“What to Do With A Disturbing Body”, in Thomas Doerfler/Claudia Globisch (Eds.), Postmodern practices. Beiträge zueiner vergehenden Epoche: Muenster: LIT Publ.
“La ricostruzione dei fatti, ovvero cosa fare del proprio corpo” - at Don Juan Online
http://www.donjuan-online.org

2001

Moving Bodies Conference Proceedings -- essay based on performance : “This is (Not) A Test: The Body at the Border”

1996

“Beyond Belief” New Art Examiner, Chicago, IL

SCREENINGS

2003

Detroit FilmFest - Detroit, MI
Chinsegut Festival - Chinsegut Hill, FL

2001

New York International Independent Film Festival - New York
Native American and Australian Aboriginal Film Festival, University of South Florida -Tampa FL (curator)

2000

Always Independent Film Festival - Cincinnati, OH
Taos Talking Pictures International Film and Video Festival - Taos, NM

1999

“The 20th Annual Utah Short Film and Video Festival - Salt Lake City, UT
Canadian International Annual Film Festival - Campbell River, BC Canada
Barrie Film Festival - Barrie, Ontario
Always Independent Film Festival, (online www.alwaysif.com) - Cincinnati, OH
Taos Talking Pictures International Film and Video Festival - Taos, NM
Women in the Director’s Chair International Film and Video Festival - Chicago, IL
Big Muddy Film Festival, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, IL

1998/
1999

“Buni #1, #4, #5” distributed by OfflLine Productions, Ithaca, NY - with Time Warner, NYU-TV and SFCTC San Francisco

1998

Canadian International Annual Film/Video Festival - Barrie, ON and Campbell River, BC, Canada
The 46th Annual Columbus International Film & Video Festival (the Chris Awards) - Columbus, OH
Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film and Video, Victoria, BC, Canada
THAW ‘98 Festival of Video and Digital Media Art, University of Iowa Digital Media Center - Iowa City, IA
Taos Talking Pictures International Film and Video Festival - Taos, NM
30th Parallel Film Festival - Austin, TX
SXSW Alternative International Film and Video Festival, Houston, TX

EDUCATION

1999

Michigan State University Department of Art, E. Lansing, MI - MFA summa cum laude, Studio Art/Sculpture

1995

Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL - BA summa cum laude, Art/Sculpture and Computer Science

1992

Cluj University Polytechnic Institute, Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Computer Science

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1999- University of South Florida College of Visual and Performing Arts - Tampa, FL
Assistant Professor: Sculpture, Performance, Installation, Graduate Seminar, Acts of Resistance
Area Head - 3D Area (Sculpture and Ceramics) (2000-2002)
Coordinator - MFA Graduate Program, Art Department (2001-2002)
1999 Central Michigan University Art Department - Mt. Pleasant, MI
Visiting Assistant Professor: Critical Issues in Contemporary Art, Senior Seminar
1998 Michigan State University Department of Art - E. Lansing, MI
Adjunct Instructor: Critical Issues in Contemporary Art

SELECTED LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS

2004

Networks, Art and Collaboration, a conference organized by Geert Lovink and Trebor Scholz at SUNY Buffalo
“Probe 11: The Elastic Test” - a collaborative workshop/brainstorming session

2002

Artists and the War Against Iraq, panel discussion, The Museum of New Art, Detroit MI
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
“Have You Ever Heard of Eastern Europe?”, artist talk
The Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI
“The Interrogation of Rozalinda Borcila” - interview with hostile panel following “Ground Zero”
Exhibit

2000

Post Modern Productions: Text, Power, Knowledge, International Conference, Erlangen University,
Germany: “Citizen/Foreigner in Recent Installation and Performance Art”, keynote speaker Dr
Frederic Jameson
Disrupted Identities and the Question of the Universal, History and Theory Conference, University of
California, Irvine: “Performative Experiments”, keynote speaker Dr Judith Butler

1999

Posing Questions: Interrogating Performance, Exhibition and Representation, 11th annual interdisciplinary conference, SUNY Stony Brook:
“Virtual Space Debate: Representation on the WEB”, in panel Representing Cyberspace
The College Art Association National Conference, Los Angeles, CA:

“Representation and Control in Web Art”, in panel Art in the Age of Multimedia Borderless Transactions: A Critique, panel chair Dr. Niranjan Rajah

1998

The Art Object And the Viewer: Art And Its Reception Throughout the Ages, University of Iowa Art History Society National Conference:
“Reconfiguring Viewership in Web Art”, with Elysia Borowy

1997

Issues In Contemporary American Art - International Conference at the Academy of Fine Arts, Cluj, Romania;
conference chair/organizer, in collaboration with host institution and Dr. Ioachim Nica:
“Body Narratives”

REVIEWS / BIBLIOGRAPHY

2007

Maymanah Farhat, “The Unearthing of Secrets”, Electronic Intifada, April 2007
Diana Awad, "Turning our Tongues: Journals from Dheisheh", September 2007 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article8993.shtml

2004

Susan Edwards, “Talk of the Town”, Weekly Planet Tampa, FL

2003

Wes Lafortune, “Stretchy Boundaries of Immigration Law”, FFWD, Calgary, April 10, 2003

2002

Frank Provenzano, “Images of Ground Zero”, Detroit Free Press, July 10 2002
David Walsh, “Interview with Rozalinda Borcila”, World Socialist Review, July 29, 2002
Natalie Haddad, “New York City”, Real Detroit Weekly, July 10 2002
Joy Hakanson Kolby, “Ground Zero Engulfs the Senses”, Detroit News, July 27, 2002

2001

Review by Adrian Golub, Art Papers, Atlanta, September 2001

2000

Adrian Mihalache, "Cultura Cablata: Cazul Borcila" ("Cable Culture: the Borcila Case"),
Contemporanul, Revista nationala de culture, politica si stiinta, Timisoara, Romania - December 21 2000

1998

Cited by adaweb (www.adaweb.com/usage/reach/reviews.html); hypertext link provided on review of Stir-
Fry, co-produced with MoMA and Associate Curator of Film and Video Barbara London
Review: “In the Dark”, Flint Journal, Flint MI

1996

Interview: “Towards the Millennium”, produced by Ventura Productions, WKAR Lansing, MI