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 exposed attendees to the latest in scientific thinking. According to Glusberg, the coordination between theoretical thinking and artistic practice was an essential part of social change.
During the military dictatorship of General Juan Carlos Onganía, the CAYC became a cultural home for the Fundación de Investigación Interdisciplinaria , 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 university in what came to be known as “La Noche de los Bastones Largos” in June 1966. In its early years the center organized a variety of activities with intellectuals that contributed to the circulation of ideas from different disciplines (analytic philosophy, mathematical logic, epistemological problems, psychology, semiotics, and linguistics), which had been excluded from official circles.
The Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico (SADAF) was one of the civil associations that welcomed university professors who had resigned their positions after the military takeover of universities. Following the model of the American Philosophical Society (APS), the SADAF set out to organize groups and events devoted to the discussion and exposure of philosophical analysis. Its original list of members included Eugenio Bulygin, Genaro Carrió, Alberto Coffa, Juan Carlos D’Alessio, Rolando García, Ricardo Gómez, Gregorio Klimovsky, Raúl Orayen, Eduardo Rabossi, Félix Schuster, and Thomas Moro Simpson. The events offered by the EAE were also attended by creators and intellectuals from a variety of fields, such as literature, social psychology, and psychoanalysis, as well as anthropology and sociology as seen from a regional perspective.
This newsletter promoted the program of events for August through September 1974 at the Escuela de Altos Estudios, which was affiliated with the CAYC. The list of seminars indicates the center’s interest in coordinating theoretical thinking and practice, not only in the activities organized by the EAE but also in the work produced by the artists associated with the school.
