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.
The CAYC partnered with the Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico (SADAF)—one of the civil associations that welcomed university professors who resigned their positions after the coup against universities—to organize groups and events to discuss and circulate philosophical analysis. The SADAF’s original members were 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.
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 for political reasons had been excluded from official circles since 1966. The center’s interest led to the creation of the Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE) in early 1973. The objectives described in the newsletters that announced the school’s creation at the CAYC (GT-201; doc. no. 1478752, GT-201- A; doc. no. 1478753, GT-224; doc. no. 1478771, GT-219; doc. no. 1478755) were apparent in the activities organized by the EAE (of both a technical and an interdisciplinary nature), as well as in the work produced by artists associated with the center.
This newsletter announces the program of events scheduled by the CAYC’s EAE for August, September, and October 1975. The list of seminars indicates the center’s interest in coordinating theoretical thinking and practice, in both the EAE’s activities and in the works produced by artists associated with the CAYC.
