GradCAM PhD researcher Jye O’Sullivan has been awarded a grant by the Getty Institute, Los Angeles, to conduct a month of research at the Getty Institute Library Archives on Centro de Arte y Comunicación – an Argentinian artistic collective working in Buenos Aires during the seventies. Jye will be spending September 2018 in the archives of the Getty, researching Centro de Arte y Comunicación’s artistic engagements with cybernetics and their importance on a global scale as a key, though neglected artistic collective.

Jye’s research will focus on the work of Luis Fernando Benedit and the way in which he explores the boundary between the biotic and the abiotic through art.

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.