FREE BEER

FREE BEER ( Codename: ARTSPACE) has been launched in Auckland, New Zealand.
For their exhibition at ARTSPACE NZ., SUPERFLEX is presenting FREE BEER (Code name: ARTSPACE) brewed by the Steam Brewing Company. Local artist & homebrewer Simon Cuming has also brewed a batch of unique FREE BEER in the gallery beginning the process on opening night and serving the result on the closing party 22 November.
ARTSPACE will seek to explore the potential of FREE BEER (Code name ARTSPACE) as an economic model for funding artistic production within the framework of the gallery.

FREE BEER (Code name: ARTSPACE) Available for private and commercial purchase:
$2 per bottle, $40 case of 24, Cash only
Please enquire at ARTSPACE office for more information.

FREE BEER events:
THE FREE BEER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PUB QUIZ, At: Tuesday 18 November at D.O.C, 352 Karangahape Rd, A chance to win a Brewcraft start-up kit and other FREE BEER related prizes!
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Closing Party: Saturday 22 November, 3pm

ARTSPACE
Level 1, 300 Karangahape Road, Newton
PO Box 68418, Newton, Auckland, 1145 New Zealand
phone +64 9 3034965 fax +64 9 3661842
artspace@artspace.org.nz
http://www.artspace.org.nz

HOURS Tuesday - Friday 10-6 / Saturday 11-4

Extra Taiwan øl info:

“It was a pleasure to be invited by SUPERFLEX and Taipei Fine Arts Museum to produce FREE BEER TAIWAN version. I personally strongly support the concept of Creative Commons and am more then happy to participate in this project. It’s difficult to brew beer in Taiwan; the ingredients are difficult to get and regulation are rather strict. Therefore, to those friends who are willing to start making beer; please be alert not to break the law.”
- Mr.Wen, Owner of North Taiwan Brewing company

In collaboration with 2008 Taipei Biennial, FREE BEER TAIWAN will be exhibited and distributed during the exhibition periods. You can find at the following stores at http://www.wretch.cc/blog/usadvd/3001561

FREE BEER 3.3 brewed using the version 3.0 recipe, but with added mushroom!
FREE BEER 3.3 is made in collaboration with Everything Mushrooms, local Knoxville home brewers and mushroom aficionados. Visit their website: everythingmushrooms.com -

The mushroom beer was brewed at the opening of COPYSHOP Knoxville, Tennessee.. Visit their website:
http://copy-shop.org/knoxville

As a part of the Taipei Binnial a FREE BEER has been released. The beer is available in different bars around Taipei.

http://www.taipeibiennial.org

FREE BEER TAIWAN has been produced in collaboration with North Taiwan Brewery and is available in selected bars in Taipei. The recipe is FREE BEER version 3.2 (codename: “St Austell”)

Lawrence Lessig:
“Just returning from the iCommons Summit in Sapporo, Japan. The Free Beer project made a showing, with a locally brewed version. But this ad caught my eye: “Free Beer” for “500 yen.”

We’re now at the stage where (at least some) the RMS conception of “free” is clear enough so that even “free beer” is “free as in free speech” such that a price running with the free beer seems (again, to a select set no doubt) perfectly natural.”

http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/how_much_rms_has_won.html

Photo: Mecredis

Henrik Moltke reports that the FREE BEER made in Sapporo is really good.
More info here:
www.icommonssummit.org/summit_blog/2008/05/did-you-say-free-beer.html

Sapporo deputy mayor with FREE BEER

Brewmaster Philipp is making 100 liters of fine FREE BEER 3.0. It going to be brewed on march 1st in Berlin to be ready for the re:publica conference in april.

link:
www.re-publica.de

more pictures can be found here:
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/kcu/album/54573
and further more a German newspaper wrote an online article: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/computer/artikel/627/161185/

Copyshop Knoxville and Everything Mushrooms has now bottled FREE BEER version 3.3 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Images here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16038409@N02/

Sábado, 15/12  das 14 às 17h

Com:
Cilene Saorin - mestre-cervejeira, beer sommelier e Presidente da Associação Brasileira de Profissionais em Cerveja e Malte, e Arnaldo Ribeiro - biólogo mestre-cervejeiro Arnaldo Ribeiro.

Conteúdo -  História da cerveja, matérias primas, procedimentos, tipos de cerveja, degustação, cerveja & comida.

Inscreva-se com Elisa no telefone 11 3257 2033.

Galeria Vermelho
Rua Minas Gerais, 350 - 01244010 - São Paulo - 11 3257 2033

www.galeriavermelho.com.br

iCommons, the organisation that rolls out Creative Commons licenses worldwide, is auctioning off “paraphernalia from some of the world’s leading Internet figures”. We donated our last remaining bottle of FREE BEER 1.0. Go get it!

Last remaining FREE BEER version 1.0 by Superflex
Bid on eBay
FREE BEER is free in the truest sense of the word: it was created by applying modern free software/open source methods to a traditional real-world product: beer. Brewed to a Creative Commons licensed recipe by students at the Copenhagen IT University and artist collective Superflex, this is the last bottle of the first batch of version 1.0 Free Beer. In the words of the Brazilian Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil: “It’s not just free beer, it’s good beer!”

More items here

Germânia is producing FREE BEER (version 3.4) and have now published a FREE BEER website with recipe, concept and graphic material for free use.

Link to website: www.choppgermania.com.br

16h - Conversation with SUPERFLEX, Lisette Lagnado and Ronaldo Lemos

18h - The Free Beer Intellectual Property Pub Quiz

Free Beer is an ‘open brand’ - all material associated with Free Beer, including the logo and recipe, is released under a Creative Commons licence, and can be used or modified by anybody.
The FB-IP-PQ is a set of classic pub quiz questions about music, food, pirates and the unjustifiable encroachment of intellectual property law on all areas of life for the benefit of corporate capital.

1 point for each correct answer unless otherwise stated.

Representatives from the homebrewers association Acerva makes FREE BEER 3.4.
We are looking forward to taste it!!

Link to their websites:
www.acervacarioca.com.br
www.acervapaulista.com.br

A new version of FREE BEER that will be displayed at the gallery Vermelho relies on a partnership with “Cervejaria Germânia”, which, besides producing the beverage adjusting the recipe to the Brazilian palate, will also distribute the product.

The association between Germânia and FREE BEER meets one of the prime objectives of the project, since it builds an open business, which, starting from a real product, questions the copyright system, in relation to intellectual property.

The FREE BEER will also be featured in the exhibition by a series of machines – “Counter-game strategies”. In a game format, the machines, whose rules will be displayed next to them, simulate the fashion of the social economic system, with its production and distribution, competitiveness, collaboration, earnings and profit. These machines will be spread around the gallery and visitors will be able to handle them freely.

OPENING:: November 27th at 20h
PERIOD:: from November 28th to December 22nd, 2007.
CHAT WITH THE ARTISTS and RONAL LEMOS, and FREE BEER PUB QUIZ:: December 1st, from 4 to 8 p.m.
WORKSHOP “THE WOLRD OF BEER” WITH CILENE SAORIN and ARNALDO RIBEIRO:: December 15th from 2 to 5 p.m.
OPENING HOURS:: from Tuesday to Friday, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
FREE ADMITTANCE

Galeria vermelho
Rua minas gerais, 350 – 01244010 – são paulo – 11 3257 2033
www.galeriavermelho.com.br

Cervejaria Germânia:
www.choppgermania.com.br