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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.
contact
Anthony Auerbach
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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