Selected Winter 2024 ISLAA Writers in Residence Announced

Winter 2024 Selected Residents

After carefully reviewing dozens of outstanding applications, our selection committee has selected the following three residents for the Winter 2024 edition of the ISLAA Writer in Residence program. Congratulations to all upcoming residents!

Renato Bermúdez Dini, Universidad Iberoamericana

Emilia Casiva, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, Birkbeck University of London

The ISLAA Writer in Residence program offers the opportunity to conduct research over the course of six weeks, exploring rare materials and newly processed primary sources from our Library and Archives. We invite applications from students, faculty, and independent scholars and writers based anywhere in the world. 

This winter, selected Writers in Residence will work remotely with a select collection of fully digitized 1970s films produced by the Buenos Aires-based arts organization Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAYC) from the ISLAA Library and Archives. Residents will produce an essay based on the film collection, in alignment with their own research interests and expertise. Each selected participant will be awarded a $2,000 grant in recognition of these research and writing endeavors.

If you have questions about the ISLAA Writer in Residence program, please email Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano, ISLAA project director: blanca.serranoortiz@islaa.org

About the collection of CAYC films:

After an exhaustive process of restoration, digitization, and study of the original films in formats such as 16 mm, Betamax, and Umatic, ISLAA is pleased to present a collection of ten films drawn from CAYC’s institutional film production and held by the ISLAA Library and Archives. Dating to the late 1970s, these films are representative of the organization's engagement with systems art and of CAYC founder Jorge Glusberg’s internationalist agenda, documenting and disseminating the group's interdisciplinary and experimental art practices. This selection of films captures the collaborative nature of CAYC, showcasing its integration of art and communication technologies while also emphasizing its commitment to breaking down national artistic boundaries in order to foster a cross-cultural dialogue between contemporary practitioners from around the world. 

Materials in this collection are in English and Spanish.

Learn more about ISLAA’s research initiatives on CAYC by exploring the CAYC Files, an open-access repository of digitized documents developed in partnership with the Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 

Please stay tuned for future research opportunities at ISLAA, including the Spring 2024 cycle of the ISLAA Research Grant.