COLLABORATIONS: autonomous collectives/social practice

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

Turning our Tongues and Daughters of Palestine: on the web and at Dheisheh Refugee Camp, West Bank: 2007-2009

Incheon Women Artists' Biennale - Incheon, South Korea, 2009

Al Kahf Gallery, Dar Annadwa - Bethlehem, Occupied Territories of Palestine, 2009

Making it Together, Bronx Museum of Art  – 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 – West Jerusalem,Occupied Territories of Palestine, 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 - Ramallah, West Bank, Occupied Territories of Palestine, 2006
Invent-L Conference 2007: Imaging Place – University of Florida, Gainesville, 2006 
Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Conference – Boston, 2006

BLW 

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

"Rehearsals" in AREA: Art, Research, Education, Activism, edited by Daniel Tucker and Rebecca Zorach – Chicago, IL, 2008
"Fred Hampton Interviewed by the VideoFreex" - performance/publication, Chicago 2008
"Chicago organizers speak: Change", Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics– University of Illinois at Chicago Theater, 2008
 "Hopeless and Otherwise", curated by Valerie Imus – Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco 2008
"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

Critical pedagogy, organizing and other ways of working collectively

"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 Museum of Contemporary Art  – 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

EXHIBITIONS: video, photography, installation/performance

2007

::Politics Under Fire:: , McGill University – Montréal, Canada
"Past Futures: Extreme Subjectification, The Engineering of the Future and the Instrumentalization of Life", 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

"Artist and Arms", The Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia - Gdansk, Poland   

2005

"Excerpts", Vector Gallery – Iasi Romania

"Artist and Arms", National Centre for Contemporary Art - Kaliningrad, Russia    

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

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

ACADEMIC TEACHING POSITIONS

2009  

Visiting faculty, Masters Program in Critical, Cross-cutural, Cybermedia ; Geneva University of Art and Design - Geneva, Switzerland

1999-2009

University of South Florida  - Tampa, FL 

Associate Professor: Sculpture, Performance, Installation, Graduate Seminar, Acts of Resistance

Area Head - Sculpture and Expanded Media (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

SELECTED LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS

2004

Networks, Art and Collaboration, a conference organized by Geert Lovink and Trebor Scholz at SUNY Buffalo

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”