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news release: July 2004
Calling All Agents
International Necronautical Society (INS) Broadcasting Unit
Transmitting from Institute of Contemporary Arts,
The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
(Underground: Charing Cross, Piccadilly
Circus)
on 87.7 FM in London and www.necronauts.org
worldwide, 24/24h daily
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
Coinciding with the granting of a temporary licence to broadcast
on FM in the London area, the INS Communications and Encodings Subcommittee
opens the doors of the INS Transmission Room to the public at the
ICA and establishes its first internet broadcast at www.necronauts.org.
The configuration of INS broadcasting protocols was developed following
the INS Second First Committee Hearings: Transmission, Death, Technology
(Cubitt Gallery, London, 2002) and this installation was designed
in accordance with INS General Secretary’s Report: Calling
All Agents (ICA, London, 2003).
The Transmission Room is both a fully functioning radio station
and an embodiment of the psychoanalytical writers Nicholas Abraham
and Maria Torok's notion of the 'crypt': an enclave which Derrida
has described as 'a pocket of resistance to reality'. The key elements
of INS broadcasting are reception, transcription, transformation
and transmission: hearing and calling. Accordingly, the Transmission
Room is equipped to receive the widest possible spectrum of data,
voice and text streams.
Visitors to the Transmission Room will be able to observe INS Transmission
Agents (Dactylographic Assistants) preparing a series of radio broadcasts,
transcribing incoming signals, monitoring patterns and devices.
The dissection of what INS General Secretary Tom McCarthy calls
the 'mediasphere' follows the fault-lines in culture: between literature
and philosophy, art and propaganda, fiction and phantasmagoria,
territory and map. Incoming content is transposed, permutated, looped,
echoed and inverted. Material is subjected to metrical and technical
procedures currently under investigation by the INS Communications
and Encoding Subcommittee, resulting in scripts for broadcast.
INS signals will be heard on FM radio in the London area, via internet
radio and rebroadcast by collaborating stations in Europe and America.
L’oiseau chante avec les doigts. Deux fois. Je repète.
L’oiseau chante avec les doigts. Deux fois. Je repète.
L’oiseau ...
(Radio transmission by the dead poet
Cégeste
heard by the title character in Jean Cocteau’s film Orphée,
1950)
INS Communications and Encodings Subcommittee
Tom McCarthy, INS General Secretary
Anthony Auerbach, INS Chief of Propaganda (Archiving and Epistemological
Critique)
Melissa McCarthy, Chief of Staff
Laura Hopkins, Environmental Engineer
Technical
Collaboration
Steve Perry, Broadcast Engineer
 International
Necronautical Society (INS)
 INS
official photos
 Calling
All Agents
 archived
news releases and press photos
Issued by Anthony
Auerbach, INS Chief of Propaganda (Archiving
and Epistemological Critique) via official
agents.
Official INS propaganda
may be freely distributed, distorted,
appropriated or adapted as the reader
sees fit.
Calling All Agents: INS Broadcasting Unit at the ICA wss supported
by Arts Council England and the ICA
  
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