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news release: November 2003
Calling All Agents
General Secretary’s Report to the International Necronautical Society (INS)
Saturday 6 December 2003, 1600h
Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
Underground: Charing Cross, Piccadilly Circus
On 6 December 2003 INS General Secretary Tom McCarthy will deliver
his long-awaited report on the Second
First Committee Hearings: Transmission,
Death, Technology (Cubitt, November 2002) to an open
session of the INS Communications and Encodings Subcommittee. Artists
and writers with expertise in the fields of sound, wireless electronic
communication, cryptography and broadcasting were summoned to the
Hearings and cross-examined by delegates of INS First Committee.
The Report maps their testimony of the the across wider transmissive
and encryptive trends in art, literature and philosophy, providing
a conceptual framework for the forthcoming installation of the INS
Radio Broadcasting Unit (ICA, April 2004). The Report will be received
by Communications and Encodings Subcommittee members Simon Critchley
(INS Chief Philosopher), Anthony Auerbach (INS Chief of Propaganda,
Archiving and Epistemological Critique) Melissa McCarthy (INS
Chief Obituary Reviewer) and Pete Gomes (Technical Communications
Adviser) who will submit comments. Members of the press and public
will then be able to put questions to McCarthy and the Subcommittee
members.
 Calling All Agents will be
published on 6 December 2003 by Vargas
Organisation, London.
Fire safety regulations
dictate that places in the Committee
Room are strictly limited. Members of
the public and INS associates are advised
secure their seats by booking tickets
early
The Committee Room is arranged by INS Chief Environmental Engineer,
Laura Hopkins.
Calling All Agents is supported
by the Arts Council of England and ICA
and hosted by ICA. Special thanks to
Vivienne Gaskin.
 International Necronautical Society (INS)
Calling All Agents
 archived
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Issued by Anthony
Auerbach, INS Chief of Propaganda (Archiving
and Epistemological Critique) via official
agents.
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may be freely distributed, distorted,
appropriated or adapted as the reader
sees fit.
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