Accumulations - Broadcast - Axiom/e - The Trinity Session # Video screening in Budapest

[anna balint]

if people travel to the

BIOTECHNOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY and SEX conference on Trans-sexuality, New Mediatechnologies & Gender
10-13, October  Ljubljana - City of Women 2002,

they might stop on their way back in Budapest, at Vision symposium and exhibition, at the Big Ear festival,
Daniel Spoerri' exhibition at the Ludwig Museum, and...

Istvan Kantor Monty Cantsin AMEN!
Video screening at the Balázs Béla Stúdió, Budapest
October 15, 7 pm
Budapest, XIII. ker. Újpest rakpart 5
tel: 3405551  
e-mail: bbs at chello.hu

Accumulation
single channel video
2001 / 10min / stereo / digitally mastered
ACCUMULATION interprets Istvan Kantor's "accumulationist theory" through reinterpreting 
already existing images and using these images as illustrations for a purposely confusing 
rhetoric. In Kantor's non-linear world, a timeless zone of constantly transmutating and rhythmic 
flow of images, texts and sounds, past, present and future are not separated but interconnected 
and everything happens simultaneously at once. Images and sounds accumulate in an ever 
expanding mass of information, introducing a new videographic landscape of technological 
society where noise and confusion dominate. 
Produced with the assistance of Charles Street Video's Artist Residency Program, Toronto 

Broadcast
2000 / 20min44sec / stereo / col / digitally mastered
computer animation: Implosion Postmedia
Cast includes local poet and radio broadcaster Louise Bak, noise-sculptor Alain Bloor, cultural saboteur 
Jubal Brown, photographers Jowita Kepa and Heidi Fry, performance artist Louise Liliefeldt, radio producer 
and actor Coman Poon, metal collagist Werner Schmidt, Montreal based porn-actresses Chloe Lum and 
Shanon Echlin, media artist Ioana Georgescu, and the maker of the video Istvan Kantor as well.
BROADCAST explores the beauty of urban decay and the body as transmission machine. It's 
hyper-dramatic nonlinear narrative links short segments of increasing tension and feverish 
intensity. Istvan Kantor comments on the architecture of noise in technological society in 
relation to broadcast transmission and the values of individual autonomy. While new high-tech 
condos are changing the cityscape the protagonists of BROADCAST are invading 
abandonned warehouse buildings and climbing up to the roofs to broadcast their hallucinatory 
performance-manifestos, introducing their own bodies as telecommunication hyper-devices.
Produced with the assitance of the Ontario Arts Council

AXIOM/E 
2001 / 15min / stereo / digitally mastered / single channel version
with Marlee Cargill, Istvan Kantor, Louise Liliefeldt, Coman Poon, Conan Romanyk 
AXIOM/E manifests Istvan Kantor's obsessive interest in the body as individual machinery unit 
in relationship to systems of social machinery. Invaded by technology, the hardware of the 
newly repossesed body-machine is now the extension of all softwares, wired up, plugged into 
external devices, shackled to keyboards, perpetually on-line, processing information, 
transmitting messages, interacting through a unifying network. The video is displaying collective 
actions and individual encounters of interactive stimulation while units of body-machines are 
taking a break from office work. Sexual experimentation is the ultimate spectacle of this post-
utopian performance society. In this sense AXIOM/E is a relentless, presistent and ironic 
manifesto of cybersportfucking, softwarepleasure and robotic ecstasy. 
Produced with the assistance of the Canada Council, Media Arts Section. Co-produced with a residency 
program at La bande video, Québec

The Trinity Session
7min 30sec, 2001, col, stereo
with Machine Sex Action Group
THE TRINITY SESSION features the authentic work of Machine Sex Action Group and 
explores the socio-physical aspects of trans-kinetic ecstasy and the techno-orgasmic ambiance 
of high-speed informantion exchange through a site-specific machine-cult performance focusing 
on robotic stimulation, desktop eroticism, office furniture-sex and cybersportecstasy.

Artist's bio:
Istvan Kantor, best known as Monty Cantsin, founder of Neoism (1979, Montreal), is a media 
artist, producer, active in many fields, performance, robotics, installation, sound, music, video 
and new media. His recent work explores the impact of new technology and focuses on the 
socio-mechanical interactions of information systems. His interactive machinery work 
"Intercourse" has been featured at the opening of Next Sex exhibition at Ars Electronica 2000. 
Kantor has received the Telefilm Canada Award for Best Canadian Video (1998) and most 
recently the Transmediale 2001 award in Berlin, Germany. He has lived in Budapest,
Paris, Montreal, New York and is a resident of Toronto since 1991. His
work has been described by the media as rebellious, anti-authoritarian,
intellectually assaultive, as well as technically innovative and highly
experimental.

This project is undertaken with the support of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of 
Canada.