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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.

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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
    Feb062009

    Trust Art prototype unveilled at TED Palm Springs 

    It has been our honor and pleasure to have the opportunity to ‘unveil’ the Trust Art website among such a magnificent group of people in Palm Springs. The market has now officially opened- and the wider world is invited to come join us in this experiment. All you need in order to purchase shares is a passion for the arts and one dollar to invest.

    We look forward to building a community with you that values freedom of expression and heralds a brighter creative future. We also now begin the task of working on the art itself – and look forward to your participation in its birth.

    DateFebruary 6, 2009 at 22:20 | CommentPost a Comment

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