Kate Southworth  

Kate Southworth is an artist and researcher. With Patrick Simons she is a founding member of the art group Glorious Ninth - producers of distributed artworks, DIY installations and invisible networks. Current experiments into co-poetic relationships between code and ritual find form as aural-visual works, installations, performative presentations and texts, and expose their ongoing aesthetic and political attempts to evade systems of control.

Recent works, such as November and love_potion, use magic, tactical gardening and social networks to recover knowledge of herbs and healing from commercial control and to share it as common knowledge. Glorious Ninth’s work has been exhibited in academic, gallery and online contexts.

Kate received BA (Hons) in Fine Art and an MSc in Multimedia Systems. She has taught Media Art subjects at Universities in London, Dublin and Cornwall. Currently she is leader of the iRes Research Group in Interactive Art & Design at University College Falmouth where, for the last five years, she has been Course Leader of MA Interactive Art & Design.

iRes

iRes is a research cluster, based at University College Falmouth, that aims to develop experimental interactive artworks, designs, software tools and environments that contribute to and support ethical interaction with other human beings within the context of the so-called 'information society'.

Glorious Ninth

Glorious Ninth is a collaborative partnership between Internet and Interactive artist Kate Southworth and composer and sound artist Patrick Simons. Their work explores aesthetic, political, theoretical and conceptual approaches to knowing the world. The space between their different approaches is Glorious Ninth. 

 FREE BEER is a beer which is free in the sense of freedom, not in the sense of free beer.
The project, originally conceived by Superflex and students at the Copenhagen IT University, applies modern free software / open source methods to a traditional real-world product - namely the alcoholic beverage loved and enjoyed globally, and commonly known as beer.
FREE BEER is based on classic ale brewing traditions, but with addded Guaraná for a natural energy boost. The recipe and branding elements of FREE BEER is published under a Creative Commons (Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5) license, which means that anyone can use the recipe to brew their own FREE BEER or create a derivative of the recipe. Anyone is free to earn money from FREE BEER, but they must publish the recipe under the same license and credit our work. All design and branding elements are available to beer brewers, and can be modified to suit, provided changes are published under the same license (”Attribution & Share Alike”)
FREE BEER is based on Vores Øl v. 1. FREE BEER v 3.0 is currently under revision by Skands Brewery and is scheduled to hit the shelves in Denmark (and hopefully be available for purchase online) by mid june 2006. 

 To follow the latest FREE BEER news and development of FREE BEER:
http://freebeer.org

OUR BEER
The first open source beer "Vores Øl" (our beer) was made with a group of students at the IT-University in Copenhagen.
more on OUR BEER:
http://voresoel.dk