What News

From July 31st to August 7th, Information Department contributer Jacob Wick drove along the indirect route from Asheville, NC to San Francisco, CA. Along the way, he performed a participatory score entitled what news (2011):

To participate:

- Send a text to Information Department at 575-446-3676 in the following format: what news [a name] [an address]. If you are comfortable with Wick taking a photograph of your postcard and posting it on his Tumblr, please also include a “Y”.

- The ID number is temporarily set up to forward directly to Wick’s cellphone; a postcard will be sent to the name and address you sent with the top headlines of the newspaper from the nearest locality to where your text was received; in this way we can all keep each other informed.

View all posted postcards here.

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Posted: July 26th, 2011
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Comments: 2 Comments.
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Comment from Question - July 27, 2011 at 15:41

Cool project! I’m wondering, would the photgraph include the recipient’s name and address? I wouldn’t mind the rest of the postcard being pictured, but wouldn’t want my name/address posted.

Comment from Jacob - July 27, 2011 at 22:54

At the moment it would. I would ideally like to photograph the “text” side of the postcard, with the headlines (and also with your name & address). If you are not comfortable with this, just don’t put a “Y” at the end of your text – then I will know not to photograph & publish your card.

That said, I was thinking to myself earlier that I would never want my address published on the internet, but then I realized that my address being findable via my Tumblr would probably be less public than it being listed in the phonebook.

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