Editing Istvan Kantor (section)

===Early work===
In 1976, at the Young Art Club in Budapest, Cantsin met the American prankster and [[mail art]]ist David Zack.<ref name="TorStandard-feature" /> Zack suggested the idea of adopting the multiple identity [[Monty Cantsin]], which Kantor accepted, to the extent that it became chiefly associated with him.<ref>{{cite book|title=Art-com|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m5IXAQAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Contemporary Arts Press}}</ref> Returning to Montreal, he organized a Mail Art show, "The Brain in the Mail",<ref>{{cite book|author=John Held|title=Mail Art: An Annotated Bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JANUAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-2455-3}}</ref> and in 1979 founded the [[Neoism]] movement.<ref name="TorStandard-feature">{{cite web|last1=Mitrovic|first1=Sasa|title=The Toronto Artist Museums Hate|url=http://www.torontostandard.com/culture/istvan-kantor-neoisim-blood-campaigns-and-guerilla-art/|website=[[Toronto Standard]]|date=13 February 2013|access-date=8 June 2016}}</ref> Soon afterwards, [[Neoism]] expanded into an international subcultural network that collectively used the [[Monty Cantsin]] identity.<ref name=Bazzichelli>{{cite book|author=Tatiana Bazzichelli|title=Networking: The Net as Artwork|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VbiQ2-Xh20EC&pg=PA43|date=February 2009|publisher=BoD – Books on Demand|isbn=978-87-91810-08-4|pages=43–44}}</ref>