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INS Transmission Agency: recriutment notice

The International Necronautical Society (INS) opens its Broadcasting Unit to the public at the ICA, London 8–14 April 2004, 1430–2100h, daily
on 87.7 FM in London and http://www.necronauts.org worldwide, 24/24h daily

The INS Communications and Encodings Subcommittee is currently recruiting agents to staff the Transmission Room. We require willing operatives to fill a rota 6–13 April 2004 in two shifts daily: 1430–1730h, 1800–2100h.

INS Transmission agents will contribute a variety of skills, interfacing with the visiting public and/or the spectrum of data, voice and text streams received in the Transmission Room. Agents will be involved in helping to prepare a series of radio broadcasts, transcribing incoming signals, monitoring encoding- and display protocols, researching transformation keys and managing archiving systems.

If you are interested in taking part and have free time around the Easter weekend please contact INS General Secretary Tom McCarthy 020 7253 9417/07768 778584 or INS Chief of Propaganda Anthony Auerbach to sign up for one or more shifts in the rota. Expenses will be paid.
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Applicants with experience in basic administration, audio-visual display, cartography, literary theory, games, puzzles, public speaking, air traffic control, information systems and meteorology are particularly welcome. INS is an equal opportunity employer.

For full briefing see Calling All Agents, Transmission, Death, Technology: General Secretary's Report to the International Necronautical Society by Tom McCarthy
20pp, black and white illustrations, 190 x 254 mm, paperback
Vargas Organisation, London, 2003, ISBN 0-9520274-8-8, £5.00
 

Founded in 1999 by Tom McCarthy, the International Necronautical Society is an expansive, networked organisation that slides between the worlds of art, fiction, philosophy and media. The organisation has been described as ‘replaying the avant-garde along the fault-line of death’.

Calling All Agents: International Necronautical Society Broadcasting Unit
Transmitting from Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH (Underground: Charing Cross, Piccadilly Circus)
Free admittance to INS Transmission Room with ICA membership (day membership £1.50 weekdays, £2.50 weekends)
pilot transmission: 7 April 2004, 1830–2030h
Open to the public: 8–14 April 2004, 1430–2100h, daily
Tours: 1500–1700h, 1830–2030h, daily

Official INS propaganda may be freely distributed, distorted, appropriated or adapted as the reader sees fit.

Issued by Anthony Auerbach, INS Chief of Propaganda (Archiving and Epistemological Critique) 050304 updated 230304

   
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