Legendary designer Peter Saville , one of the curators of NOISE festival , the online festival for young artists, will take part in the next NOISE Curator Forum. This is a rare chance to hear the opinions of one of the world’s leading image makers; perhaps you want to ask about one of Peter’s campaigns, about the state of the graphic design industry, about his role as a university tutor or about his NOISE selections?

Post your question to Peter Saville by clicking here - you’ll need to submit it to the FORUM by Wednesday, the 10th January. The best ten questions will be put to Peter and his answers will be posted on the website, after the 15th.

This year’s cycle of talks on the Public Domain continues on

Wednesday, November 29, 2006, 6:30 PM
Radio Communities: The Other Side of the Electronic Divide

Monday, December 4, 2006, 6:30 PM
Open Source: On the Line

The New School
55 West 13th Street
New York City
http://www.nsu.newschool.edu/vlc/

Astrodome Radio and Hurricane-Affected LPFMs
A six watt micro-radio station broadcasts from an Airstream trailer in the parking lot outside the New Orleans Astrodome.
Image courtesy: Prometheus Radio Project

Wednesday, November 29, 2006, 6:30 PM
Radio Communities: The Other Side of the Electronic Divide
The New School
55 West 13th Street
New York City

Radio has reemerged as one of the most accessible media. Cheap, omnipresent, and now low-tech, it is transforming the way we think of geography and public place in locations as disparate as Oaxaca, Beirut, and the Lower East Side. Radio has gained additional prominence and validity in politically charged situations which demand anonymity of dissenting citizens. What political, cultural and humanitarian goals can be served exclusively by this medium? How does radio function as a tool for shared information? This panel will discuss the ability of airwaves to keep the world connected near and far when other technology fails.

Panelists:
Khin Phyu Htway, student, The New School; Voice of America, Burmese service
William H. Siemering, President, Developing Radio Partners
Pete Tridish, Prometheus Radio Project
Gregory Whitehead, artist

Moderator:
Stephanie Guyer-Stevens, Producer, Outer Voices

• Monday, December 4, 2006, 6:30 PM
Open Source: On the Line
The New School
55 West 13th Street
New York City

Artists and technologists mine the promising aesthetic and political possibilities afforded by different open source systems, a powerful concept that is revolutionizing human interaction. In the open source concept, something given for free becomes, thanks to its ubiquity and utility, valuable and even indispensable. Panelists examine sites like Wikipedia and Digg.com, as well as p2p networks and social networking sites. They also explore offline artwork, arts institutions and businesses that have sought to adopt open source models and current challenges to its continuation such as "net neutrality."

Panelists:
Cory Arcangel, artist
Joy Garnett, artist
Daniel Mayer, Co-founder, Wikipedia
Laura Quilter, Founder, Fair Use Network

Moderator:
Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts, The Whitney Museum of American Art

Co-sponsored by Rhizome.org.

Is forming every fortnight, starting this Wednesday in the upstairs function room at the royal inn on the park at 6:30pm. The foundation meeting will be based on the importance or non-importance of such a discussion group. For instance, the majority of the attendees are involved with art, philosophy and politics, they have established the initial meeting based on the belief that it is important for people to talk and establish a community based on the sharing of ideas, philosophies and intellectual activity. The discussions are open to any subject or suggestions. For the beginning we are suggesting that everyone prepare a 5min talk to initiate the group and topics of your choice. These discussions will be the preliminary workings for a large symposium and publication. Everyone and their ideas are welcome. FREE, 6:30pm, 111 Lauriston Road, The Royal Inn on the Park Email: Info@acclondon.org Call: 07910010513 Also, If you like to work from a life model, The Hackney Artists run a two hour session every Monday at 7pm, same place.LINK

Wangechi Mutu. “Yo Mama”. 2003. Cut-and-pasted printed paper, cut-and-pasted pressure-sensitive synthetic polymer sheet, synthetic polymer paint, and pencil with glitter on two sheets of painted paper, (A) 59 1/8 x 41 1/8" (150.2 x 104.5 cm), (B): 59 1/8 x 43 7/8" (150.2 x 111.4 cm). The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art
The Feminist Future: Theory and Practice in the Visual Arts
Friday, January 26, and Saturday, January 27, 2007
9:30 A.M.–5:30 P.M. both days

This symposium addresses critical questions surrounding the relationship between art and gender, bringing together international leaders in contemporary art, art history, and related disciplines. After the activism of the 1960s and ’70s, and the revisionist critiques of the 1980s and ’90s, this symposium examines ways in which gender is currently addressed by artists, museums, and the academy, and its future role in art practice and scholarship.

Keynote speakers:
Lucy R. Lippard, writer and activist
Anne Wagner, Professor of Modern Art, Department of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley

Panelists:
Ute Meta Bauer, Associate Professor and Director of the Visual Arts Program, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Connie Butler, The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art
Beatriz Colomina, Professor of Architecture and Director of the Program in Media and Modernity, Princeton University
Coco Fusco, artist and Associate Professor, Columbia University School of the Arts
Guerrilla Girls, Frida Kahlo and Kathe Kollwitz, two founding members of the feminist activist group
Salah Hassan, Professor of Art History and Director of African Studies and Research Center, Cornell University
David Joselit, Professor and Chair, Department of History of Art, Yale University
Geeta Kapur, critic and curator, New Delhi
Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University
Richard Meyer, Katherine Stein Sachs CW'69 and Keith L. Sachs W'67 Visiting Professor, Department of History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator of Exhibitions, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University
Wangechi Mutu, artist
Griselda Pollock, Professor of the Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of Centre for Cultural Analysis, History, and Theory, University of Leeds
Ingrid Sischy, Editor-in-Chief, Interview

Respondents:
Catherine de Zegher, curator and art historian
Linda Nochlin, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Last Thursday I went to an inspirational talk at the Site Gallery , Sheffield. Part of the CIQ 's First Thursday series, the topic this month was collecting and owning contemporary art.

First up was Sheila McGregor, arts consultant and Chair of Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum (SCAF). She introduced the event and talked a little about some of SCAF's initiatives (including the new Arts Ambassadors scheme) to get the public in Sheffield to engage directly with artists.

Tim Dickson was a living example of such direct engagement. A designer and gallery technician, he started frequenting artists' studios in London in the early 90s. Over the course of several years, he got to know most of those subsequently known as the "Young British Artists", and at the same time he amassed (on a very limited budget) a stunning collection of contemporary art (in 2003 his collection was the subject of a major show at Sheffield's Graves Art Gallery , "Amongst the Constallations", featuring work by Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, the Chapman brothers, Antony Gormley, Marc Quinn, Gary Hume and many more). For the CIQ event, Tim displayed a slide-show of some of his acquisitions, interspersed with photographs of the artists, accompanied by what he promised would be a five-minute stumbling commentary but which in the event proved to be an extremely engaging and passionate thirty-minute tour of contemporary British art.

The "engaging and passionate" theme continued with Greville Whitbread, an artist, collector, owner of Catterick race-course and a former Turner Prize judge. Greville's talk and slideshow hopped from contemporary art shows to parties at Greville's house, to bamboo, to country fairs and back again. It was all told with such enthusiasm and such charming anecdotes that I could have listened to Greville all night. He rounded off by showing some photos he had taken of steam-engines and their owners at a fair at his racecourse. He wasn't quite sure what to make of them himself yet, but he was sure that there was "something there", and I couldn't help agreeing with him: the photos combined something of the inventory-making of Bernd and Hilla Becher with the joy at English eccentricity of Martin Parr. Splendid!

Finally Gill Hedley, Director of the Contemporary Art Society , had a hard act to follow in Greville, but she managed admirably. She introduced us to some of the work of the society, and how it had transformed over recent years from a "club for ladies who lunch" into a real force in supporting artists, particularly in filling in the gaps which the public sector couldn't or wouldn't fill. And she also described some of the fun they had on their various outings.

Afterwards there was chatting, nibbles and wine, and then I headed off with Paul and Jacqui to a once-in-a-lifetime performance of Psychic TV at the Boardwalk (photos here).

Black Dogs, Leeds premier booze inspired art collective, respond to their first outside invitation to exhibit work in an actual gallery space the only way they know how - without any work. Their DIY ethic may appear to have become a thorn in the paw for this particular event, but dispense with your scepticism, as the audience are invited to find out for themselves that the jumping of the hurdle is infinitely more exciting than a flat race.

In ‘Wager Slave’ Black Dogs let the audience decide what the content of the exhibition will be. This is achieved through a complex yet methodical series of games, events and most importantly wagers, structured by Black Dogs to achieve total fun and engagement. At the opening event (1st September) the attendees are encouraged to take advantage of various low cost services and entertainments provided by the six individual members of Black Dogs. Following this riotous funfair all money gained will be placed in a dog race at the near-by racing track, the winnings of which are to be spent on an art object then displayed in the gallery for the remainder of the exhibition.

A further twist appears in the course, as the art object attained with the winnings is dictated by its monetary value in a home shopping catalogue. The art object can therefore range from a pack of AAA Batteries to a fully functioning chest freezer. In order to test the assumption that anything in the walls of a gallery is art Black Dogs will place the object on an online auction site, the end of which will coincide with the final day of the exhibition. On this date the audience are once more invited back to the space to see the results of their art-gambling pay off, or not. Free drinks will flow all round if the winnings allow it, otherwise expect to be subjected to the dreaded ‘artists talk’ if we end up out of pocket.

All are welcome to join in the fun and drama. Your input is vital and appreciated, you only need bring loose change and if nothing else, you’ll get to experience the guilty pleasure of the dog track for free, and maybe learn a little more about contemporary art practice simultaneously. Plus booze.

Runs from 1st September until 17th at Bloc Space. 198 Arundel Street, Sheffield S1 4RE | telephone 0114

Opening event on friday 1st September starts at 6pm

Closing event on sunday 17th at 2pm

Two evenings of ARTIST TALKS Mon 21 Aug 6.30 – 8pm, Mon 04 Sept 6.30 – 8pmAn exhibition showcasing the work of seven artists dealing with notions of the miniature;Tessa Farmer,Liz Dawson,Adam Humphries,Paul Collinson,Michael Whittle,Curators and Contributing Artists:Andrea Gregson and Laura Youngson CollTo book a place please call 020 7654 0171 Exhibition Continues – 09 Sept Mon – Sat 10 – 5pm www.theminiatureworldsshow.co.uk,www.jerwoodspace.co.uk

Straight from the Sundance Film Festival and Critics Week selection at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, this is the first public showing of Destricted, which brings together sex and art in a series of films created by some of the world’s most acclaimed artists and directors, including Marina Abramovic, Marco Brambilla, Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Gaspar Noe, Richard Prince and Sam Taylor-Wood.

TATE MODERN
Destricted Screening
Wednesday 6 September , 18.30
Sunday 10 September , 15.00
Tuesday 12 September , 18.30
Wednesday13 September , 18.30

TATE MODERN
Destricted Panel Discussion
Destricted: Art and Sex Saturday 9 September 19.00–21.00
This panel discussion offers a critical context for the screenings of Destricted , a project that brings together sex and art in a series of short films created by acclaimed artists and directors, including Marina Abramović, Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Richard Prince and Sam Taylor-Wood.

Following the screening of a selection of films from the programme, the contested issues around art and pornography are discussed by Los Angeles-based critic and curator Bruce Hainley; Catherine Millet, Art Press editor and author of The Sexual Life of Catherine M.(2002); artist Larry Clark; and critic and curator Neville Wakefield.

DESTRICTED CINEMA RELEASE
Curzon Soho - 15 & 16 Sept 
Fact Liverpool - 18th Sept 
Tyneside Cinema Newcastle  - 20th Sept
ICA - 21st Sept

FOLLOWING THIS DESTRICTED WILL BE RELEASED ON DVD ON THE 25TH OF SEPTEMBER 2006
More info here