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.
In 1969, at the first Arte y Cibernética exhibition, the CAYC demonstrated that its experimental work was in line with ideas that had been presented previously on the international stage. With this exhibition, presented at the Galería Bonino in Buenos Aires (which has branches in Rio de Janeiro and New York), the center sought to illustrate the possibilities offered by new creative technologies. There was an underlying interest in promoting a form of interdisciplinary activity “that reflected the time in which we are living.” In March a group of Argentinean artists, assisted by a number of programmers, engineers, and systems analysts from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and the Escuelas Técnicas ORT, explored creative possibilities generated by technologies that were available at the time.
The works were presented at several different institutions, with a list of participating artists that varied from one event to another. [See GT-23 (doc. no. 1476279); GT- 24 (doc. no. 1476281); GT-63 (doc. no. 1476298); GT-240 (doc. no. 1476436), GT-330 (doc. no. 1476495)]. Luis Fernando Benedit, Antonio Berni, Ernesto Deira, Eduardo Mac Entyre, Osvaldo Romberg, and Miguel Angel Vidal showed their works at the pioneering exhibition in 1969; on this occasion the list was expanded to include Hugo Demarco, Gregorio Dujovny, Mario Mariño, Isaías Nougués, Rogelio Polesello, Luis Pazos, Juan Carlos Romero, and Norma Tamburini, whose works demonstrated what could be accomplished by computer-assisted creativity.
