In 1968, the Centro de Estudios de Arte y Comunicación [Center for Art and Communications Studies (CEAC)] was created, which, shortly after its first public event at the Galería Bonino (August–September 1969), changed its name to Centro de Arte y Comunicación [Art and Communications Center (CayC)]. Always led by Jorge Glusberg as director and theoretician, the CAyC sponsored several different artists throughout its time. In 1971, the Grupo de los Trece [Group of the Thirteen] was created, made up of Jacques Bedel, Luis Benedit, Gregorio Dujovny, Carlos Gizburg, Víctor Grippo, Jorge González Mir, Vicente Marotta, Luís Pazos, Alfredo Portillos, Juan Carlos Romero, Julio Teich, Horacio Zabala, Alberto Pellegrino, and Jorge Glusberg. Later on, some artists moved on while others were included; in 1975, the CayC Group included the participation of Bedel, Benedit, Grippo, Portillos, and Glusberg.
“Arte de sistemas” [Systems art] was the term coined by Glusberg himself in order to focus some quite different artistic proposals developed around the CAyC. Under this concept, the works of art are understood as sistemas de signos [sign systems], which, in turn, can respond to different códigos [codes]: political, ecological, conceptual, and cybernetic, among others. Thus, beyond the diversity of meanings that are proposed in each work, what is maintained in all of them is their nature of being a system. This implies, at the production level, the possibility of a certain serialization, or a multiplication of the works, as well as the relevance of the creative process that overcomes the finished product itself.
