etoy. Corporation, Zurich, 1994.
The etoy. Corporation is a collective structure formed in Zurich in 1994. etoy is the typical promotor (online since 1994) that develops rapidly, quickly becoming a controversial, market leader in the field of experimental art and digital entertainment on the internet. Shares and services such as digital kidnap (1996), etoy. Timezone (1998), Toywar (1999/2000) or etoy. Daycare (2002) are art classics. The etoy. Corporation belongs to more than 2000 etoy shareholders: international art collectors, venture capitalists, etoy agents, etoy administrators, admirers and several hundred toywar soldiers (that protected the brand during the legendary toywar). The etoy shareholders posses and control the corporative structure of etoy.
etoy. Corporation does not sell individual art products. etoy interchanges and sells parts of itself: etoy shares represent participation and cultural value. The 640,000 etoy shares available in the international art market represent 100% of the power of etoy (=100% of the company). The etoy share certificates guarantee a strict limit to etoy Shares.
Since 1998, the orange etoy Tanks (retrofitted transport containers without windows, 12 by 6 metres – icons of globalisation) form a mobile and multi-function system of etoy offices, including studios, hotels and conference rooms, etc. Wherever etoy is needed throughout the physical world, etoy appears and disappears from the morning to the night to infect the way that people are thinking and feeling (i.e. in San Diego, San Francisco, New York, Zurich, Tokyo or Torino between 1998 and 2003). Depending upon the the situation of the market and project, between 5 and 15 etoy Nucleus-Agents (currently 4 women and 11 men in switzelrand, Austria, Italy, Germany, Japan and the U.S.A.) form the production and investigation team of etoy. The etoy administration (2 or 3 Directors must sign contracts) carries out daily business.
etoy. Corporation has won various international art prizes, (the Golden Nica in the .net category / Prix Ars Electronica) and regularly appears on TV (invited and uninvited) as in other media to infect the etoy VIRUS: The New York Times, the Silicon Valley Reporter, the Washington Post, Wired News, NPR, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, NZZ, WOZ, La Republica, Relax Japan, etc. etoy team members gave conferences and spoke in the MIT Media Lab in Boston, the UCSD in San Diego, the DASARTS in Amsterdam, the ETH in Zurich, the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, the ICC Intercommunication Center en Tokyo, the Interactive Institute in Stockholm and in many international festivals.
etoy investments are not focused on gaining economic profit. etoy risk is about cultural benefits, social profits and intelectual capital gains on the resources invested.
Work at the collection: 30+10 etoy. Shares
30+10 etoy Shares, 2011 - 2012
etoy.Corporation does not sell isolated art objects. etoy sells, trades and exchanges parts of itself and its brand: etoy.SHARES represent participation in etoy and cultural value generated by etoy. All 640’000 etoy.Share-units available on the international art market equal 100% of the etoy.Power represented by the privately held company etoy.Corporation (registered in the City of Zug, Switzerland / Register of Commerce CH-170.3.029.244-0).
etoy.Share-Certificates are works of art and part of international collections like the Artothek (collection of the Austrian Bundeskanzleramt), the Migros Corporation, the Shiffler collection and in the hands of private supporters of etoy (Michelangelo Pistoletto, Joichi Ito, John Perry Barlow etc). Each etoy.Share-Certificate is a unique visual documentation of a specific code, moment or element of the etoy.Universe and certifies the strictly regulated ownership of etoy.Corporation: the core of the etoy.Art-Work.
etoy. Corporation is on hibernation mode and the etoy. Shares are not trading.
On loan from LaAgencia Collection.
