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, 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 “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 (analytical philosophy; mathematical logic; epistemological problems; psychology; semiotics; and linguistics), which had been excluded from official circles when the military took over the universities after the coup led by General Onganía in 1966.
This newsletter invites readers to “Aproximación a un análisis comunicacional del deterioro,” a talk given by Alfredo Moffat, a renowned specialist in social psychology, at the CAYC. The article lists the subjects to be addressed, noting the different theories and methodologies used for analysis in social systems. The center hoped that this event would provide access to the possibilities offered by new social theories that could be applied to art, especially activities that supported the CAYC’s programs, and that it would help create a poetics of its own.
