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 scientific thought. According to Glusberg, the coordination between theoretical thinking and artistic practice was a key factor in the achievement of social change.
During the military dictatorship of General Juan Carlos Onganía, the CAYC became a cultural home for the Fundación de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (Foundation for Interdisciplinary Research), a space that welcomed a group of dissident professors from the Facultad de Arquitectura y Ciencias Exactas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires after the military takeover of the institution in what came to be known as “The Night of the Long Batons” in June 1966.
This newsletter invites readers to attend the seminar presented by Professor Armando Sercovich, Introducción a la investigación semiológica. After the seminar that was presented in March 1971 (GT-32), this newsletter announces another opportunity to promote this type of education. The article describes the scope and method of such events and reports on the intention to create a research team focused on social communication.
With this initiative, the CAYC sought to promote the possibilities offered by linguistic theory and semiology for creative activity, especially for the creation of the center’s own poetics, such as it enjoyed in its early years.
