Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This newsletter announces the conference, “Las alternativas del tercer mundo,” to be presented by the Peruvian psychologist Leopoldo Chiappo. The event was part of the Jornadas Latinoamericanas de Discusión, a series of forums [...]

This newsletter announces a performance by Gente, a theater group that included Graciela Juanico, Graciela Militano, and Ricardo Duro. Performative acting exercises such as this one were part of a series of theatrical explorations that took place at [...]

As part of the campaign to promote the activities of the Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE), an entity created as part of the CAYC in the wake of the military takeover of universities, this newsletter invites readers to a seminar presented by Agust& [...]

This newsletter announces the “Jornadas de lingüística y psicolingüística” to be held from November 1 to 4, 1973, at the CAYC in Buenos Aires. The event was organized as part of the interdisciplinary exercises [...]

This newsletter includes a list of the subjects to be addressed in “Los postulados lingüísticos de Chomsky”, a seminar to be presented by Martha F. de Barrena Guzmán. The course of six classes was part of the program [...]

This newsletter invites readers to attend “El concepto de modelo”, a seminar to be presented by Gregorio Klimovsky at the recently opened Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE), which was created by the CAYC. Linking theoretical thinking and [...]

This text announces a tribute to Chile in the wake of the military coup d’état that took place on September 11, 1973. The intention was to reflect upon the consequences of the violent overthrow of the democratically elected government [...]

Following the debacle created in Argentina’s higher education when the military took over the universities in 1966, a group of intellectuals and academics created the Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE) as part of the CAYC. Members of the EAE [...]

This newsletter announces the visit of the critic and curator Guy Brett and provides the program of activities planned for his two conversations at the CAYC in Buenos Aires. Brett, an English writer, specialized in avant-garde news and experimental [...]

This newsletter announces the “Jornadas latinoamericanas de discusión,” a series of forums for discussion organized by the Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE), an entity created within the center. Each of these international forums was [...]

This newsletter includes a text by José Babini in which he discusses the use of semiology as a science for the analysis of communication phenomena. The newsletter announces that Babini will be at the CAYC as part of the program offered by the [...]

This newsletter invites readers to “Jornadas Intensivas de Discusión,” a series of discussion sessions organized by the CAYC in 1970 and 1971, while the exhibition Hacia un perfil del arte latinoamericano was installed at the [...]

This newsletter invites readers to a talk by Jorge Glusberg, who will address three major art events that took place in 1972: the 36th Venice Biennale in Italy; documenta 5, in Kassel, Germany; and the Encuentro Internacional de Arte in Pamplona, [...]

This newsletter invites readers to attend a course taught by Professor Gregorio Klimovsky, a specialist in mathematical logic and the philosophy of science. The newsletter includes an extensive list of topics and a brief resume of the engineer- [...]

This newsletter invites readers to a presentation by Luis Pazos, a member of the Grupo de Experiencias Estéticas, who was part of the Argentine delegation to the VII Young Artists Biennial in Paris, which ran from September to November 1971. [...]

This newsletter lists the subjects to be addressed in “Los modelos lingüísticos y sus aplicaciones,” the seminar to be presented by Armando Levoratti at the CAYC. The newsletter announces this seminar, consisting of eight [...]

The activities provided by the CAYC’s Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE) included a psychological approach. This newsletter includes a text by David Cooper about antipsychiatry and invites readers to attend a lecture to be given by the South [...]

This newsletter invites readers to a performance by the avant-garde theater group Nosotros Laboratorio de Teatro. The article includes a photo of an onstage scene and a text in the form of a manifesto in which the group states their aesthetic [...]

The activities of the Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE), an entity that was created as part of the CAYC in response to the military takeover of the universities in 1966, made the center stronger during its early days. This newsletter includes an [...]

The creation of the Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE), an entity that operated as part of the CAYC, meant that its activities would need to be advertised. Keeping in mind how important the use of technology was to become in the future of art, this [...]

In an attempt to circulate information about the activities of the Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE), an entity that the CAYC founded during the tense period brought on by the military dictatorship, this newsletter presents an academic and intellectual [...]

This newsletter provides a list of the subjects to be discussed at “Significado, filosofía y lingüística,” a seminar to be presented by Eduardo Rabossi at the CAYC. The seminar, consisting of eight classes, was part of [...]

This newsletter announces the start of activities at the Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico (SADAF, the Argentine Society of Philosophical Analysis) at the CAYC. The Society operated as part of the Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE [...]

The center was restructured after the creation of the Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE), an entity made up of intellectuals and academics that the CAYC founded following the military takeover of universities in the aftermath of the 1966 coup d’& [...]

The exhibition Arte en cambio opened at the CAYC. This newsletter invites readers to a performance by the popular Argentine singer-songwriter Mario Alberto Costa. The article includes a bio and photograph of Costa together with the poem, “ [...]

This newsletter provides an introduction to the career and theoretical development of Abraham Moles, a pioneer in the field of computer science. This newsletter’s goal is to promote the seminar Arte y comunicación that Moles is scheduled [...]

This newsletter includes an English version of the program for the second scientific session to be presented by the Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico (SADAF) at workshops at the CAYC in Buenos Aires. The two groups joined forces [...]

This newsletter invites readers to a presentation of Escrito con un nictógrafo, Arturo Carrera’s first book of poems, published by Editorial Sudamericana in 1972. The Argentine creator made his presentation at the CAYC; Professor Enrique [...]

This newsletter announces a seminar to be presented by Félix Gustavo Schuster at the CAYC. The backdrop to the event is the recently created Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE). The seminar, “Hacia una metodología de las ciencias [...]

This newsletter announces another seminar at the CAYC in Buenos Aires, to be presented by Eduardo Rabossi. The event was organized by the recently created Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE). The description states that the seminar, “Significado, [...]

This newsletter announces one of the first activities on the program of the Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE), the recently created entity within the CAYC’s original structure. The Argentine anthropologist and cultural promoter Néstor Garc [...]

This newsletter announced the basic objectives of the Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE) when it was created as a research entity within the CAYC. These objectives included coordinating interdisciplinary theoretical thinking and artistic practice. The [...]

This newsletter announces the program for May of 1973 at the Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE), an entity that had recently been created as part of the CAYC. The article also mentions some of the goals of the research program, focused primarily on the [...]

This newsletter announces the seminar La música técnica en el siglo XX, to be presented at the CAYC by César Bolaños, from Peru. Among its various initial objectives for this seminar, which was focused on the international [...]

This newsletter announces that a lecture on contemporary art will be given at the CAYC. Despite the fact that the title of the event and the name of the speaker have been omitted—probably due to a design error—the resume included makes it [...]

This newsletter invites readers to the presentation of El cazador metafísico, a book by Luis Pazos, published by Ediciones Noé (March 1972), which was awarded the First Prize for Poetry by the Fondo Nacional de las Artes the previous [...]

This newsletter announces the course “China popular sin filtros (experiencias de un fotógrafo).” Rubén Núñez would present the course and discuss his travels in Asia, specifically, The People’s Republic [...]

This newsletter invites readers to the seminar “Introducción a la investigación semiológica,” which Professor Armando Sercovich will present at the CAYC. The center was interested in these types of events that [...]

This newsletter invites readers to come to the CAYC to meet the famous Polish theater director Jerzy Grotowski, who introduced the idea of “poor theater.” The newsletter includes a brief bio of this thespian pioneer who developed the [...]

The creation of the Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE, the School of Advanced Studies) as an integral part of the CAYC lent the center academic and intellectual cachet through an interdisciplinary approach. This newsletter includes a text in which [...]

This newsletter announces the creation of the Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE), which would operate as part of the CAYC. The military’s interference in universities led to personnel changes in Argentina. The EAE’s goals were focused on the [...]

This newsletter announces the publication of the first issue of Diafragma, a magazine devoted to Argentine and Latin American photography and film, edited by Miguel Ángel Otero. The article provides a list of the publication’s goals, [...]

As part of an attempt to promote the exhibition of works by the Grupo de los Trece at the CAYC, this newsletter introduces the dancer and choreographer Nélida Puig and invites readers to the performance she will give to celebrate the group& [...]

This newsletter invites readers to the experimental music concert that was staged as part of the exhibition Arte de sistemas II at the CAYC in Buenos Aires. The article includes the program of musical pieces and mentions the use of the Holimar sound [...]

This newsletter invites readers to the experimental music concert to be presented as part of the exhibition Arte de sistemas II Internacional at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMBA), which will feature a performance by the guru of [...]

This newsletter invites readers to attend “Semiótica de la arquitectura” (The Semiotics of Architecture), a seminar to be presented by Professor Armando Sercovich at the CAYC in Buenos Aires. This event demonstrated the center& [...]

This newsletter invites readers to attend the seminar Arte y comunicación, to be presented by Abraham Moles. The CAYC was keenly interested in promoting a connection between theoretical thinking and artistic practice among a diverse group of [...]

This newsletter invites readers to a roundtable discussion about art biennials. There was, at that time, the issue of the controversy caused by the XI São Paulo Biennial that took place in Brazil from September to November 1971. The article [...]

This newsletter invites readers to attend the seminar, Introducción a la investigación semiológica, to be presented by Professor Armando Sercovich at the CAYC. As mentioned in the newsletter, the event represents the center&rsquo [...]

This newsletter is an invitation to attend “Antiliteratura y escritura (de cortázar a puig)” (Anti-literature and Writing: From Cortázar to Puig), a talk by Professor Alfred Mac Adam. This event came about as a result of the [...]