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 art and 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 (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 institution in what came to be known as “The Night of the Long Sticks” in June 1966. In its early years, the center organized multiple activities with intellectuals that led to the circulation of different disciplines (analytical philosophy, mathematical logic, epistemological problems, psychology, semiotics, and linguistics) that had been excluded in official circles.
Eduardo Rabossi (1930–2005) was a polymath: a philosopher, writer, lawyer, and politician. In 1966, after the military dictatorship took over the universities, he resigned from his teaching positions at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). He then became affiliated with Oxford University, first through a grant from the British Council, and later as a fellow at the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. (Eugenio Bulygin and Nora Stigol, “En memoria de Eduardo A. Rabossi” Análisis filosófico 27, no 1 (2007): 91–94.) When he returned to Buenos Aires in 1970, Rabossi and some of his colleagues founded the Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico, or SADAF (Argentinean Philosophical Analysis Society). The society held its first activities at the CAYC in August 1972. (GT 120 [la lógica y el método hipotético deductivo]; doc. no. 1478803,, GT 120 [la discusión acerca de los conceptos de estructura y modelos]; doc. no. 1478802). The title and topic of the event promoted in this newsletter indicate a point of inflexion in the CAYC’s strategies, which coincided with the first public appearances of the Grupo de los Trece. (GT-116; doc. no. 1476404, GT-125; doc. no. 1476409, GT-128-II-III; doc. no. 1476410, GT-138; doc. no. 1476335).
