Brooklyn-based artist David Horvitz has a new participatory project that also serves the practical function of reducing his student debt. The project, hosted here, is the artists' attempt "to use the internet to get 100,000 people to mail the Sallie Mae corporation a check for 58 cents." Horvitz's loans from Sallie Mae, which financed his MFA at Bard College are currently at approximately $58000. Horvitz hopes to use this community action to pay down his debt and also to flood the mailbox of Sallie Mae. The artist is attempting to track all the participants on Twitter @fiftyeightcents. You can learn the specific details on how to get involved on his site here. Best of all, the site encourages anyone who has debt and likes this idea to use it for themselves.
