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 (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 university in what came to be known as “La Noche de los Bastones Largos” (The Night of the Long Sticks) 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 Center’s interest led to the creation of the EAE (Escuela de Altos Estudios [School of Advanced Studies]) 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.
The CAYC welcomed groups and encouraged the discussion and dissemination of philosophical analysis. The SADAF (Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico [Argentine Society of Philosophical Analysis]) 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, 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 Escuela de Altos Estudios 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. The usual contributors were joined by new intellectuals such as Enrique Mari in the field of philosophy, and the architects Mario Goldman and Jorge Enrique Hardoy, each with unique proposals.
This newsletter promotes the program of activities scheduled for October and November 1975, at the same time as the “Primer Coloquio de Comunicación” [First Symposium on Communication] (GT-569; doc. no. 1478992, GT-572; doc. no. 1478994, GT-574; doc. no. 1478995, GT-575; doc. no. 1478996, GT-576-77; doc. no. 1478997). The list of seminars indicates the CAYC’s interest in coordinating theoretical thinking and practice in both the activities organized by the EAE and in the work produced by artists associated with the Center.
