Ever since it was founded, the CAYC (Centro de Arte y Comunicación), helmed by the cultural promoter, artist, and businessman Jorge Glusberg, was intended as an interdisciplinary space where an experimental art movement could flourish. The establishment of collaborative networks connecting local and international artists and critics played a key role in this process. The exhibitions shone a light on these exchanges, in which overviews of trends or individual artists introduced the innovations of international contemporary art and made Argentine and Latin American artists better known on the global scene.
With the support of local critics and institutions, which facilitated the exhibition’s travels, and thanks to Glusberg’s relationship with Jasia Reichardt—assistant director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London—who curated the paradigmatic exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity (1968), cybernetics was increasingly present in art. It was the first exhibition to shine a light on computer-generated art. This new exhibition, presented in Chicago in 1971, showed the works made by Argentinean artists, with the technological assistance of IBM engineers (since 1969), which were originally shown at the Galería Bonino in Buenos Aires.
The first edition included works by Luis Fernando Benedit, Antonio Berni, Ernesto Deira, Eduardo Mac Entyre, Osvaldo Romberg, and Miguel Ángel Vidal. On this occasion those artists are joined by Hugo Demarco, Gregorio Dujovny, Mario Mariño, Isaías Nougués, Rogelio Polesello, Josefina Robirosa, and Norma Tamburini. The CAYC thus spotlighted the outpourings of computer-assisted creativity in Argentina.
