Director, Emily Hicks, Ph.D. Administrative Coordinator, Colette Gannaway The Institute is associated with the Musica sin Fronteras archive, an archive of interviews with musicians who have performed at events sponsored by the institute, the journal SNL (Studies in Non-linearity), a book series, Multiple Positions, a Monograph Series in Non-linear Studies and the emerging graduate program in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at San Diego State University, where it is currently located. The first translation project will be a translation of Julian Carrillo's Teoria de la musica, followed by an artists' book by M. Kasper that will be used to exemplify several literary and experimental traditions central to the mission of BIAS-NES. SNL Editorial Board Harry Polkinhorn Larry McCaffery Brandi Bell Marguerite Waller Ricardo Mendoza Advisory Board Allucquere Roseanne Stone Antonio Muntadas Greg Booth Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Abbe Don Chili Charles Isidro Ortiz Felipe Ehrenberg Sergio Waisman Ken Friedman Alberto Blanco Jose B. Cuellar John Chalmers Lorne Falk Gustavo Segade Ernesto Solis-Winkler Peter McLaren John Chalmers Jose B. Cuellar Stuart C. Aitken Andrew Ross M. Kasper Tom Davies Mission Our mission: 1) to accommodate the growing undergraduate population at SDSU and at the same time encourage research and writing components with the support of GTAs ; 2) to establish and to provide research support for a graduate program in Chicana and Chicano Studies and Comparative Literature (two emphases in a joint program); 3) to bridge the gap between border studies in the arts and literature, on the one hand and the social sciences, economics, policy studies, criminal justice, etc. on the other hand; 4) to build community links to educational institutions and human rights organizations in the region; 5) to create international links to our research, particularly that research being produced in Pacific Rim, in Europe and in Latin America; 6) to support and to expand upon the commitment of many educators to "critical thinking" to include various traditions: the Frankfurt tradition, particularly the work of Adorno, the Situationist tradition, the Deleuzo-Guattarian tradition, and other related traditions; 7) to promote studies in non-linear thinking and studies in non-linearity at both the undergraduate and graduate level, and to incorporate the arts as a way of developing this curriculum. Our practical plan: We hope to attract interest from graduate students in the departments of English and Comparative Literature, LAS, MALAS, Women's Studies, Music and Art to work with BIAS-NES-associated faculty on the topics related to those listed below. In 2002, we hope to be able to offer a Special Topics Course (595) ( Fall 2002). This 500-level course may be taken by both undergraduate majors and graduates. Currently, we are offering an Expansion Module version of CCS 310, which has been revised to include wide-ranging research possibilities for advanced students and basic skills in research design (writing of a research proposal, review of the literature, statement of methodology, use of the library and Internet) for less advanced students. We have plans to increase both the enrollment size and the GTA support for the 310. Professor Hicks already teaches a music course with 170 students and Professor Nericcio also teaches large-enrollment classes. Nericcio has managed to create a large enrollment for class with CL 445; we plan to create an advanced version of CL 445 (another 595) . In the near-future, there will be support for 4 GTAs for the high enrollment CCS 310. Research areas A-K Adorno Al-Fudul Alternate Notational Systems (music) Animation Anti-sect Legislation in France Artists's Books Art Collectives Bataille BAW-TAF The Body, Sexuality Border Theory Border Studies Borges Anthony Braxton Event/eventos John Cage Caribbean Music Julian Carrillo Chicana literature Chicana/o studies Corrido Critical Analysis of Graphics Software Critical Pedagogy Cuban Music Deleuze Ecology Ethnomusicology Extended Vocal and Instrumental Techniques Feminist Musicology Film Film Theory Fluxus Jazz Jazz and Animation Holography Interactive Telecommunications Kabbalah Kabbalah and Literature Kabbalah and Semiotics L-Z Latin American Studies Las Comadres Los Maclovios Leadership and design Leibniz Mental Health Mental Health and Ethnicity Mental Health and Diagnosis Mexican Music Microtonal music Multiculturalism Multicultural Education Negri New Religious Movements Nietzsche Neo-grafica Harry Partch Peace Movements Performance Performance Theory Postcolonial Studies Psychoanalytic Literary Approaches Psychology Pythagorean Theory Queer Theory Rights Discourse Ritual Rock en espanol Set theory Semiotics Situationists Small press publications Spoken Word Spinoza Stereoscopic imagery Schoenberg Stockhausen Sumerian Culture 3-D Translation Studies Translation Theory Women's Studies Visual Poetry Zapatistas Zen and Art Researchers Affiliated with the Institute and/or Associated with Related Projects Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Grad Center Arturo Arias, Latin American Studies at the University of Redlands Greg Booth, Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Deputy Director, School of Creative and Performing Arts Auckland University Angelo Corlett, Department of Philosophy, San Diego State University D. Chaffin, Department of Philosophy, San Diego State University Victor Clark, human rights activist, Tijuana, also associated with San Diego State University Cesar Espinosa, Mexico, D.F. Ken Friedman, Associate Professor, Leadership and Strategic Design, Norwegian School of Management, Oslo Michelle Habell-Pallan, Department of Spanish, University of Washington Michael Hardt, Duke University Linda Holler, Department of Religious Studies, San Diego State University Judith Hoffberg, art critic, Los Angeles Joan Hugo, art critic, Los Angeles Ulysses Jenkins, Department of Art, University of California, Irvine George Lewis, Professor, Department of Music, University of California, San Diego Roberto Martinez, human rights activist, retired from American Friends Service Committee Brian Massumi, Department of English. State Univesity of New York, Albany Peter McLaren, Education, University of California, Los Angeles Rene Nunez, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Diego State University Isidro Ortiz, Professor, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Diego State University Clemente Padin, Uruguay Harry Polkinhorn, English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University Jose "Pepe" Villarino, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Diego State University Gustavo Segade, Professor emeritus, Department of Spanish, San Diego State University Owen F. Smith, Professor, Art History, Unversity of Maine, Orono Marguerite Waller, Professor, Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Riverside Patricia Washington, Associate Professor, Women's Studies, San Diego State University Artists, Musicians, Composers and Writers Gloria Anzaldua Lisle Ellis Felipe Ehrenberg Teresa Gunn Tim Hodgkinson George Lewis Aaron Magnan Joe Monzo Paul Flores Stelarc ThaiMex Rachel Rosenthal TES602 (Students in English 602 Spring 2001) Trummerflora Tiana Uribe Bill Wesley Paul WilliamsJ Ray Zone ZIA Cultural Institutions Chicano Federation Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego Spruce St. Forum, San Diego University of California, San Diego, Civic Collaborative University Publishers San Diego State University Press Academic Journals Social Text Differentia Fiction International Art Journals Umbrella Bookstores/Record Stores Mtheory 3004 Juniper St. (Golden Hill) Moe's Books 2476 Telegraph Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704 Professional Organizations MLA (Art and Literature Section) Thanks to Our Supporters The institute would like to express thanks to Paul Strand, Dean, College of Arts and Letters, San Diego State University, for providing funds to pay a GTA for the CCS 310 class to be taught in Spring 2000. We would also like to thank the GTA who was hired, Francisco Bustos, for his past work on this project, which includes working with Isidro Ortiz to select and purchase CDs for the archive Musica Sin Fronteras, and for assisting Colette Gannaway, administrative coordinator in establishing this institute. A microgrant made it possible for Isidro Ortiz and Hicks to create the archive, for which we are also grateful. We appreciate the work of Joan Godwin in continuing to meet the bilingual challenge: the task of cataloguing rock en espanol in the archive that is currently available to all graduate and undergraduate students and faculty in the Media Center. We would also like to thank Ricardo Griswold del Castillo, Chair, Chicana and Chicano Studies, for his support of both the archive and the Institute. And finally, we would like to thank Colette Gannaway, without whom BIAS-NES would not be possible FAQs 1. Why are we creating an institute of non-linear studies? An example of a non-linear paradigm is that of the border itself. We hope to engaged in provocative rethinkings of hybridity, cross-fertilization, assimilation, the border as cage, etc. in order to develop non-linear paradigms. We would like to bridge the gap between border studies in the arts and literature, on the one hand and the social sciences, economics, policy studies, law enforcement and criminal justice, etc. on the other hand. It is our view that by working with researchers in a variety of academic fields, carefully and narrowly selected not only because they are working in border regions, but more specifically, because they are working with non-linear paradigms, we will be able to produce more socially-relevant research. We might find ourselves learning from researchers in ecology and studying the paradigms they use (such as "seed ball"). One exercise the students will be given reminded the Director of her undergraduate education in the sciences at UC Berkeley. It is drawn from a Fluxus artist George Brecht: Consider an object. Call what is not the object the other. Add to the object from the other another object to form a new object and a new other. Repeat until there is no more other. Non-linear studies can include the work of Deleuze on Leibniz in which the relationship between time and space is examined. We will look at Deleuze's "objectile" (object and projectile). An ethical concern is central: how to talk about rights in border regions? We are setting for ourselves the task of analyzing current anti-sect legislation in France because it raises so many fascinating issues: the relationship between Church and State, First World (France) and Third World (China is supporting France), the definitions of sect, cult and religion and theories about "mental manipulation." 2. What will you be doing and how will you be doing it? Immediate plans include setting up the website for the institute, submitting a Special Topics course proposal and attending Curriculum Committee meetings in the Department of CCS in order to integrate the institute into the long-term plans for establishing a graduate program in CCS. We will also be: 1) working with the Advisory Board members to identify, locate and contact scholars around the world doing similar research; 2) creating a national presence by presenting some of this research and information about the Institute at the Modern Language Association. In 2002, the Director will be doing a performance piece at the invitation of the Literature and Performance Section. She will be collaborating with a graduate student at San Diego State. We are also in contact with graduate students currently enrolled in a similar program at NYU and we are getting ideas from them about how to attract students to our program. 3. Who will be doing it? At this point, the Director, Emily Hicks, will be working closely with the Advisory Board members. to identify, locate and contact scholars around the world doing similar research. A website designer has been hired to develop the website. The Director will be assisted by Francisco Bustos, the GTA, and Colette Gannaway, the administrative coordinator in CCS. We are also with Rudy Jacobo and Alex Gomez, two filmmakers who also happen to teach in CCS. They are working on a documentary on curanderos for Nova and they are also making a documentary on the border. 4. How will you publicize the project outside of academe? We plan to make information about BIAS-NES available for downloading through the website by building a list of organizations and individuals who might be interested and contacting them. The Director hopes to use the local media outlets to bring attention to the project. In 2002, we will be attending the National Stereoscopic Association annual convention in Riverside in order to garner public support for the institute. 5. How can one get involved? We hope to have a list-serve connected to the institute so that various research topics associated with the list above can be discussed. Students, researchers and all interested will be encouraged to participate. BIAS-NES will be sponsoring cultural events in order to showcase the work of local, Tijuana and Southern California artists, musicians, composers and writers. Support of these events will be welcome. Links: CCS 310 Syllabus Director's Bio Emily Hicks received a Ph.D. from UC San Diego after completing studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and UC Berkeley. She is currently Professor at San Diego State University with a joint-appointment in Chicana/o Studies and English and Comparative Literature and a member of the editorial board of the SDSU Press. Hicks has presented theoryperformance, performance art and installations nationally, in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and internationally in Mexico, Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy and Uruguay. She was a member of BAW-TAF and Las Comadres. She directed the Border Residency at Banff Centre for the Arts. Hicks is the author of Border Writing (University of Minnesota) and Ninety-five Languages (Lang) and is completing a book on rights discourse. Her areas of research interests include Latin American literature, Chicana literature, Border theory, Literary theory, Critical Pedgagoy, Rights discourse, Ethnomusicology, Microtonal music, Electronica, Sound as installation art, Performance and boundaries between theory and performance, Interactive telecommunications and Holography. Bios on Selected Advisory Board Members Felipe Ehrenberg, artist, currently resides in Brazil. where he is Cultural Attache at the Mexican Embassy working with the Mexican Ambassador to Brazil Cecília Soto. Antonio Muntadas was born in Spain and has been based in New York and Barcelona since 1971. He teaches at MIT. Antonio Muntadas' artworks take form in video, multi-media and installation. In the past three years, his projects have been presented in New York, Tokyo, Stuttgart, Jerusalem, Winnipeg, Helsinki, and many other cities world-wide. He recently completed a ten year video study of the art world system entitled "Between the Frames: The Forum" which was presented in 1994 at CAPC (Bordeaux, France) and the Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH). He teaches and lectures world-wide; in 1994 he was an artist-in-residence at the Ecole des Beaux Arts (Paris) and Arteleku (San Sebastian, Spain). In addition to helping maintain The File Room (opened May 1994). He recently completed a project on translation. Abbe Don received an MFA from New York University, Interactive Telecommunications Program. She has consulted on projects for The Disney Channel, Apple Computer, Inc., Netscape, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett Packard. She specializes in Interface Design, Information Architecture, Digital Storytelling, and Virtual Community Development for Interactive Multimedia. Allucquere Roseanne Stone received her Ph.D. is History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. She is currently Associate Professor in Department of Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin and Wolfgang Kohler Professor of New Media and Performance, The European Graduate School, Hamburg, Germany and Saas-Fee, Switzerland. She is Senior Artist, The Banff Centre for the Arts. Stone is the author of The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age (MIT) and numerous articles in her areas of specialization, which include Convergent Media; Performance and the boundaries between theory and performance; Interface; Sound as installation art; Phenomenology of communication; Science and Technology; Transgender; Body, sexuality and representation; Film, video, and music production and Science Fiction. Ernesto Solis-Winkler. Humanidades, La División de Enseñanza Media Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Campus Toluca. He is currently translating Julian Carrillo's Teoria de la musica from Spanish to English. This will be the institute's first project. Jose B. Cuellar. La Raza Studies. San Francisco State University.
