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 an important role in this process. In addition to the exhibitions, a program of different activities provided viewers with a greater chance of seeing the latest innovations in art and scientific thought. According to Glusberg, the coordination between theoretical thinking and artistic practice was a key factor in the achievement of social change.
Technology, architecture, design, industry, and the hard (“exact”) sciences, as well as social and behavioral sciences were fundamental specializations in the CAYC’s interdisciplinary project and had been since its inception. In its early years the center organized the Jornadas Intensivas de Discusión, which addressed a number of problems that sought to coordinate art and scientific thought as a way to build a new social reality.
This newsletter announces the fifth meeting—though in earlier newsletters there is no mention of the first or the fourth—devoted to art and science. In 1969 the first Arte y Cibernética exhibition underscored the CAYC’s experimental profile, which was in line with initiatives being presented on the international stage. The show at the Bonino gallery in Buenos Aires (which had branches in Rio de Janeiro and New York) allowed the center to explore the potential of working with new technologies for creative purposes. With this fifth Jornada de Discusión, the CAYC proclaimed the need for an interdisciplinary approach made possible by collaboration among artists and prominent scientists, thus moving forward with an original aesthetic proposal that was inherent to the institution
