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. The exhibitions shone a light on these exchanges, in which overviews of trends or individual artists provided an introduction to the innovations of international contemporary art and made Argentine and Latin American artists better known on the global scene.
After the extensive tour taken by Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica and the Encuentros Internacionales abiertos de Video from 1974 to 1976—with stops to show recent Latin American art at the new cultural spaces and centers that were emerging in Europe in those days—the CAYC organized América Latina 76 at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk.
The museum was part of the collaborative network of South American and international institutions that were involved with experimental practices. These entities offered similar programs to encourage the production and exhibition of Conceptual works in a contemporary circuit created by new cultural spaces and centers. The connections established with the director René Berger and the museum curator Hugo Arne Buch led to art exchanges between Humlebæk and Buenos Aires. In January 1977 the newsletter announced the opening of the exhibition, which included works that were similar to those that were part of the various versions of Arte de Sistemas en Latinoamérica. The newsletter explains those similarities.
