TRANSFER Data Trust

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data trust

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Decentralized Artist-owned Archive and Cultural Value Exchange Cooperative

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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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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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Gray Area

$190,000 USD since Apr 2024

GSR Foundation

$50,000 USD since Feb 2026

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Filecoin Foundation

$30,000 USD since Aug 2024

TRANSFER Data Trust is all of us

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Thank you for supporting TRANSFER Data Trust.

Kelani Nichole

Admin

Lorna Mills

Core Contributor

Rosa Menkman

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Wade Wallerstein

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Carla Gannis

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Regina Harsanyi

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Huntrezz Janos

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Ryan Betts

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Danielle Amodeo

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sasha arden

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Nicholas Kaplan

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Invoice 2 of 2 for Data Trust Round 3

from Eddy Colloton to TRANSFER Data Trust • September 17, 2026

-$2,500.00 USD

Pending

Payment for Second Round Grant

Debit from TRANSFER Data Trust to Carla Gannis • May 7, 2026

-$2,500.00USD

Paid

Project Management – Phase 2

from Kelani Nichole to TRANSFER Data Trust • May 6, 2026

-$2,500.00 USD

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Today’s balance

$24,094.99 USD

Total raised

$244,133.29 USD

Total disbursed

$220,038.30 USD

Estimated annual budget

$50,000.00 USD

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News from TRANSFER Data Trust

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🏛️🏗️ Resilient Cultural Infrastructure

Culture is in a perilous position. · In the first quarter of 2025 we’ve witnessed a devastating loss of cultural legacy – from cancelled resources, to widespread censorship, and rampant data deletion. Suddenly, arts and culture institutions...

Published on April 4, 2025 by Kelani Nichole

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...

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...

Published on August 5, 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, data cooperative 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

Kelani Nichole

Admin

Lorna Mills

Core Contributor

Rosa Menkman

Core Contributor

𓊍

Wade Wallerstein

Core Contributor

Carla Gannis

Core Contributor

Regina Harsanyi

Core Contributor

Huntrezz Janos

Core Contributor

🛸

Ryan Betts

Core Contributor

👣

Danielle Amodeo

Core Contributor

sasha arden

Core Contributor

Nicholas Kaplan

Core Contributor

Eva Papamarga...

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Eddy Colloton

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Andrew

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Mattaniah Ayt...

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Rae Egan

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