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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    Friday
    May082009

    Trust Art NYC Fundraiser Event - May 12

    Dear Shareholders, and people interested in Trust Art:

    Over the past three months, since launching our prototype at TED, we have listened to your feedback and have been hard at work redesigning the Trust Art website, making it more clear and navigable, adding content and definition to the project profiles, and making the overall shareholder experience more socially rewarding.

    We have also formed several key partnerships with organizations like the Open Space Alliance and the NYC Parks Department to place several of the projects on public park land. To celebrate and unveil these accomplishments, and to progress our fundraising momentum in New York, we would like to extend an invitation to you and your friends to a fundraiser event for Trust Art.

    The intimate event will be next Tuesday, May 12. It will be full of art and 'art happenings', we will unveil our newly improved website, and everyone will receive a beautiful piece of art to take home.

    There are a limited number of tickets available at $101. This is an opportunity to become a Trust Art shareholder if you are not already one. Proceeds from the event count towards shares in your name in the ten inuagural public art projects commissioned by Trust Art. If you are already a shareholder, this is the time to reaffirm your belief in the transformative power of public art.

    PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

    with infinite gratitude,

    Trust Art

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