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.

This book is dedicated to the memories of politically murdered Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and Jorge 'Loro' Vazquez Viana. Each page can be separated and placed in a grid to reveal the completed image of these two men. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The message on the left reads HOPE, (image of a flame): It's all over in an instant. On the right: (image of a whirlwind), Every action has an opposite and equal reaction, and PERFIDY. The work was received about 10 days prior to Hurricane Andrew, the most devastating natural disaster to the USA in the 20th century, that struck South Florida. The text and images are particularly relevant since the instantaneous destruction to dwellings was attributed in large part to shoddy construction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Hidalgo is a member of the Zaj group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This reproduces a 'paper' delivered to the American Society of Cybernetics in 1987, produced as the response to a call for a more socially beneficial information processor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

There is no text; the book consists of blank, black pages. The artist committed suicide in November 2009 at age 71 because of unrelenting tinnitis (ringing in the ears). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The bag that is printed "black dirt" contains contains the same. The bag that is printed "gold seed" contains yellow corn kernels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This object consists of a box tightly packed with scrolls printed with one sentence of a novel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Lotterie Romane 1, Second edition, revised and enlarged. Original published in 1964.

The pages of the booklets consist of photocopied typewritten texts. The box is addressed to P[atricia] Collins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each poem object consists of a box handmade by Biro into which has been placed a circular mirror on a cushioned bed with the following lines: 1) We Get On Well, 2) I Don't Look Anyone In The Eye, 3) I'm Obsessed With The Future, 4) It's Hard Not To Hate In A Situation Like This, 5) Often Feel Like Don Quixote and 6) Life Here Is Just Survival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each of 10 cans contained a different color paint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is depicted on page 23 of Ducorroy's catalogue raisonne, a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

his image was printed by Brice Marden. Saroyan received a $5,000 grant from NEA to produce this print and FOUR other minimalist, concrete poems. This grant prompted William Proxmire, senator from Wisconsin, to award his Golden Fleece Award to the National Endowment for the Arts as one of the most outrageous examples of slap-your-forehead misappropriations. In his book "an/thology of pwoermds" Geof Huth writes the following: "I began to write pwoermds after becoming entranced by Saroyan's eyeye. The simple beauty of that poem haunted me, even though (and maybe because) the poem began as a typographical error of Saroyan's and it took a friend of his to point out to him its signficance (Solt, Concrete Poetry, 57)." This print was redone in 1989 as a silkscreen orint in 1989 in an edition of 150 with a priceof $1,000 on the internet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.