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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, 24/24 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 encrypted radio broadcasts, transcribing
incoming signals, monitoring encoding- and display protocols, researching
encryption 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
mailto:tom at necronauts.org 020 7253 9417/07768 778584 or INS Chief of
Propaganda Anthony Auerbach mailto:necronauts at vargas.org.uk to sign up for
one or more shifts in the rota. Expenses will be paid.

Applicants with experience in basic administration, audio-visual display,
cartography, literary theory, games, ciphers, 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
http://www.vargas.org.uk/publications/caa.html

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'.

Additional information: http://www.necronauts.org
Press service: http://www.vargas.org.uk/press/ins/recruitment_04.html
Venue information: http://www.ica.org.uk

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) 040304