Centro de Arte y Comunicacion (CAYC) (Center for Art and Communication) Buenos Aires

Collection

Identifier: MsC0759

Staff Only
Please navigate to collection organization to place requests.

Scope and Contents

CAYC related materials consist of one copy of each of the poster-size works included in the 1972 circulating and later exhibitions (these are located in map cases in the Special Collections) plus a linear foot of catalogues, documentation, books and pamphlets dating from 1970 to 1980 and inventoried here. Boxes 2 and 3 contain black and white photographic prints which were scanned to produce the online images; many of the original works are difficult for a camera to "read" and the prints have were created to increase the brightness and contrast between the foreground ("art") and the background paper.

This is an Alternative Traditions in Contemporary Art collection.

Dates

Creation: 1970-1980

Creator

Centro de Art y Comunicaci (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Extent

1.75 Linear Feet (Photographs Boxes 2 and 3)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Committed to the production and dissemination of systems art, CAYC was established as a multidisciplinary workshop in August of 1968. A collection of large scale works (each about 22 x 34 inches) was assembled in 1972 by Jorge Glusberg, CAYC Director, as an edition of 10 that circulated as traveling exhibitions. Apparently including about 72 works in 1972, the collection grew over time and the Iowa collection now consists of 143 diazo prints and appears to be the only extant copy. The collection includes a linear foot of catalogues, documentation, books and pamphlets, dating from 1970 to 1980 and a complete set of black and white photographs from which online images were derived.