GradCAM PhD researcher Jye O’Sullivan will be presenting his paper: Positioning Centro de Arte y Comunicación within a Global Art History of Engagements with Cybernetics at the Latin American Studies Association conference in Barcelona in May. Jye will be part of a panel exploring art and politics in Latin America during the sixties and seventies, and will present on the specific ways in which Centro de Arte y Comunicación used conceptual art as political resistance in Buenos Aries during the seventies.
Jye’s present research examines the interactions between cybernetics and art, the history of early computing, biological cybernetics, Latin American conceptual art, and global networks of knowledge sharing. He is an active member of the Digital Studies Network as well as the Environmental Art and Design Seminar.