Trust Art is a social platform that is commissioning
ten public artworks over the next year. People are invited to
become shareholders with $1, share with interested friends, and renew culture.

Trustees

Lewis Hyde

An adviser to Fame Theory, Lewis is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic with a particular interest in the public life of the imagination. His 1983 book, The Gift, illuminates and defends the non-commercial portion of artistic practice, and proposes that the key to cultural renewal is to reconcile the market economy with the gift economy. Lewis is a MacArthur Fellow and a Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and is currently at work on a book about our "cultural commons". www.lewishyde.com

Founders

Fame Theory

A media company founded by artists. Fame Theory LLC began in 2005 as an ensemble of artists, economists, technologists, and entrepreneurs fundamentally investigating and affecting the ways in which cultural innovation is funded, grown, and subsequently proliferated throughout the media.

Fame Theory created Fame Game (www.famegame.com), an influential database of people in the media, which indexes millions of media records to reveal who is connecting who.

Fame Theory has shown work at The Whitney Biennial, Art Basel, and presented at Cooper Union, TED, The Feast, and The New York Bar Association.

The ensemble is, among others, Jose Serrano-Reyes, Seth Aylmer, Joanie Tom, Paul Amnuaypayoat, Jennifer Novak, Tim Schwartz, Ryan Brown, and Tatiana Platt. Tamara Weg is an independent art writer with Trust Art.

Brand Partner

BBH New York

BBH New York is an award winning full-service creative agency, to learn more please visit:www.bartleboglehegarty.com

Technology Partners

Squarespace

A content management platform that powers tens of thousands of websites for businesses and bloggers worldwide. The people: Dane Atkinson, Krystyn Heide, and Tyler Thompson. www.squarespace.com

Jonathan Cousins

A software designer and engineer specializing in the creation of data visualizations and user interfaces. He focuses primarily on social network analysis, global migration and the promotion of government transparency, but his design practice extends beyond these topics to include development, consultation and meditation on other kinds of commercial, philosophical and creative enterprises. His efforts on projects have been presented at various conferences such as ETech, Where2.0, SIGGRAPH Asia and the Lightwave Festival in Dublin. www.jonathancousins.com

Arkadiy Kurkarin

Arkadiy is an independent technologist and programmer recently graduated from RPI; he has a predilection to develop code for innovative cultural technologies like Hype Machine and Sched.org. http://mindhole.org

Brett Fiorio / Foxycart

An e-commerce platform that developed by a small team providing flexible and secure ecommerce solutions. www.foxycart.com

Chris Cox / Wirepoint Media

A creator of software solutions for websites, desktop applications, and mobile phones. www.wirepointmedia.com

Conference Partners

TED Palm Spings

www.ted.com

The Feast NYC

www.alldaybuffet.org

Special Thanks

Wendell Davis
Stephanie Redlener
Ryan Fix, Pure Project

Honorary mention

Ben Franklin
Marcel Duchamp
Yves Klein
Greg Sholette
Douglas Rushkoff
James Carse

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    Thursday
    Mar192009

    High School Field Trip to Trust Art

    Fame Theory had the great pleasure of having a brainstorming session with six bright, young stars from from The Bronx Guild High School about Trust Art. We also were fortunate that Trust Artist Facundo Newbery dropped by just in time for an impromptu presentation about his project, which had the kids both laughing and volunteering their time to the cause of sustainable homebuilding.

     

    It was really a defining moment in the life of Trust Art to have the kids get excited the way they did about art and social good, and this project for bringing those things together. We recommend henceforth: always double check your model with the kids. And always listen to your teacher (Dana Luria was masterful at keeping us all on track).

    Here are some notes from the young ones, and some pictures:

    Dear Seth and Jose,
    thank you for allowing us to visit you organization. I had lot of fun.
    i also learned a lot about some cool projects which some people are
    working on to make a sustainable community for others. I would like to
    visit another day and learn how i can get involve with some of these
    projects.

    Imlaque Chowdhury

     

    Dear Jose N Seth,

    I wanted to send you this thank you note/letter to you thanking you for yesterday. I had fun makin you guys laugh. I would really like it if you guys came to our school and showd all the students what you showed us yesterday.Well thanks 4 having us and hope 2 see u again.

    From matthew

     

     

    I will like to thank you for allowing the Bronx Guild students an opportunity to pass by and see what the place is about.I love the idea of what different artists are doing.I lovethe idea of the perfume called humanity. Having to remember a memory over a perfume is a great thing. The idea of sending different supplies to the Dominican republic to give them electricity and gas is a awesome idea. I’m glad that people are willing to help my country. Having a chance to help you guys out would be a great experience and it’s a great feeling to be part of these projects. Hopefully I get to see everyone again soon. It was nice meeting everyone there.

    Thanks, Ginette Castillo

     

    Hey Jose, Seth and Jen its Kathy. I just wanted to thank you all for letting us go visit you guys at Fame Game/Trust Art. It was really funand cool to hear what you guys are all about. It was also great to see a little bit of what Brooklyn is like. I really liked all the art work ya had around the place itespecially thechandelier made of needles. I like how ya help other artists become more famous and all. Thank you again.

     

    Dear Seth and Jose,

    I am writing to thank you that I had a really good time on Wednesday. I hope to go back and learn how to create my own page on the Web. I really had a fun day. Maybe I will come back and visit sometime.

    Sincerely, Nick Santiago

     

     

    heyi wanted to say thank you for everything yesterday i had a lot of fun and i learn different stuff too. i never knew people did so much to try to make a change in the world just to help a little. It really help me understand alot about peoples and how other people in other countryneed help too. i also really like the place it was so nice and warm, it was nice meeting you Jose,Seth and Jen your truley

    gianna

     


    IF ANYTHING, THIS IS A GENERATIONAL THING.

     

     

    Reader Comments (2)

    These kids are super cool.

    May 16, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJose

    This is cool, I am pleasure. Thank you.

    July 29, 2009 | Unregistered Commenternuoc hoa

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