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TRANSFER Data Trust

Fiscal Host: Gray Area

Decentralized Artist-owned Archive and Cultural Value Exchange Cooperative

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Financial Contributions

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Founding Contributor: Node Sponsor

Bring a node online to increase our storage capacity and seed the archive. Contributors can choose to self-host, or select an organizational steward.

$5,000 USD

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Founding Contributor: Artist Sponsor

Fund archival support for one artist studio. This contribution supports specialist labor to pair archivists and conservators with the artist's studio.

$10,000 USD

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Founding Contributor: Trust Backer

Support our first year of operations and cover legal fees to help us establish the Artist-Owned Cooperative held by a Perpetual Purpose Trust.

$100,000 USD

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Top financial contributors

Organizations

1
Gray Area

$90,000 USD since Apr 2024

Individuals

1
Erin O'Connor

$8,000 USD since Aug 2024

TRANSFER Data Trust is all of us

Our contributors 16

Thank you for supporting TRANSFER Data Trust.

Lorna Mills

Core Contributor

Huntrezz Janos

Core Contributor
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Carla Gannis

Core Contributor

Wade Wallerstein

Core Contributor

Regina Harsanyi

Core Contributor

Rosa Menkman

Core Contributor
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Ryan Betts

Core Contributor
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Danielle Amodeo

Core Contributor

Nicholas Kaplan

Core Contributor

sasha arden

Core Contributor

Eva Papamarga...

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Budget


Transparent and open finances.

-$1,500.00 USD
Pending
Invoice #230955
-CHF 2,633.25 CHF
~ $2,996.28 USD
Pending
Invoice #230903

Debit from TRANSFER Data Trust to Ryan Betts

-$4,000.00USD
Paid
Invoice #229697
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Today’s balance

$53,423.65 USD

Total raised

$89,493.70 USD

Total disbursed

$36,070.05 USD

Estimated annual budget

$98,000.00 USD

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News from TRANSFER Data Trust

Updates on our activities and progress.

Decentralizing Conservation and Care 💙🌐

TRANSFER Data Trust is halfway through our first round of funding, and we have a big project update to share: 6 months ago we started building out our vision with...
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Published on November 22, 2024 by Kelani Nichole

Data Trust Conservation & Restoration

The next phase of development for the TRANSFER Data Trust is underway, with support from the Knight Art + Tech Expansion Fund, Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, and Filecoin Foundation. So far this summer we have been in conver...
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Published on August 5, 2024 by Kelani Nichole

Launching TRANSFER.ART

Hey there 👋 This is Kelani Nichole, Founder of TRANSFER, writing to share some exciting updates. Introducing TRANSFER.ART · Last year, TRANSFER...
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Published on April 10, 2024 by Kelani Nichole

About


TRANSFER Data Trust is a decentralized artist-owned archive and cooperative value exchange network.

The Data Trust is a milestone development in TRANSFER’s decade-long journey. In 2023 we announced we’re pausing our gallery program to reflect on the distant early warnings from our artists, by establishing a decentralized archive backed by a trust holding artworks from our 85+ international exhibitions. This speculative design project is focused around building an automated, non-profit cooperative trust model that integrates the perpetual purpose artist trust with cooperative organizational structures.

The experiment is backed by modern technological practices such as encryption (smart contracts) and decentralized storage to facilitate efficient management and accrue value in a new way for experimental media artists. This shift in the gallery’s operations represents an ‘Exit to Community’.

Our team

Lorna Mills

Core Contributor

Huntrezz Janos

Core Contributor
🛸

Carla Gannis

Core Contributor

Wade Wallerstein

Core Contributor

Regina Harsanyi

Core Contributor

Rosa Menkman

Core Contributor
𓊍

Ryan Betts

Core Contributor
👣

Danielle Amodeo

Core Contributor

Nicholas Kaplan

Core Contributor

sasha arden

Core Contributor

Eva Papamarga...

Core Contributor
⛓️💥

Andrew Vivash

Core Contributor

Eddy Colloton

Core Contributor