Ken Montgomery is a New York-based visual artist and “sound/composer”
whose involvement in the cassette-culture and mail-art movements of the late
seventies led to the creation, in 1989, of the first and arguably still the most
important sound art gallery in New York City: Generator. Located first in the East
Village and later in Chelsea, Generator’s wide scope and novel approach toward audio
art made it a vector-point for some of the most interesting and important artists
from around the world. Ken was also the founder of A.T.M.O.T.W.— Art is Throwing
Money Out The Window — and Generator Sound Art Inc., and he co-founded the seminal
experimental labels Generations Unlimited and Pogus Productions. As a composer in
the early eighties Ken was creating multi-channel sound works often performed in
total darkness. More recently Ken has been focusing on visual art, collage,
bookmaking, and international correspondence art. As The Minister of Lamination
(a.k.a. Egnekn) he is the world’s foremost practitioner of sonic Lamination Art.
Montgomery has collaborated with a wide variety of artists including Conrad
Schnitzler, Andrea Beeman, David Lee Myers (Arcane Device), Zoe Beloff, Michael
Zodorozny, and Ishtvan Kantor (a.k.a. Monty Cantsin).