Matthew J. Sage
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EDUCATION
2016 – MFA : Writing - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2010 – BA : Creative Writing / Art & Aesthetics - Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
CLASSROOM & TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2017-2019 Part-time Faculty – Communications, Media, Theater Department
Northeastern Illinois University
CMTM366 – Multimedia Story Telling
CMTC305 – WIP: Academic Writing for Media Studies
CMTM160 – Introduction to Cinema
2016-2017 Adjunct Professor & Cohort Leader (English Department) & Professional Tutor
Wilbur Wright College, Chicago City Colleges, Chicago IL
ENG99 – Developmental English
ENG102 – Science Fiction & Dystopias
2014 - 2016 Graduate Museum Ambassador
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2016 Graduate Instructor
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Intro to Academic Writing – Science Fiction & Dystopias
2015 - 2016 Graduate Teaching Assistant
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Electronic Writing w/ Judd Morrisey
Literary Transmissions w/ Janet Desaulniers
2012 Community Poetry Workshop Leader
Wolverine Farm Publishing, Fort Collins, CO
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2009 - 2019 Publisher/Owner/Operator/Curator/Editor/Mailroom
Patient Sounds / Patient Presses
Private Press Record Label & Book Publisher
2013 Art Curator & Event Coordinator
Bean Cycle Coffee House, Fort Collins, CO
FREELANCE
Writing & Editing, Graphic Design & Illustration, Music & Sound,
Video, Fine Arts/Commissions, Photography, Web & Print.
CLIENTS: Ghostly International, Reverb, Third Coast International Audio Festival, Art Institute of Chicago, Noumenal Loom, Students of Decay, Flaunt Magazine, The Smudge, as well as private individual clients.
AWARDS
2012 Poet Laureate, Fort Collins, CO
2010 / 2011 Best Experimental Musician
Fort Collins Music Association, Fort Collins, CO
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY & EDITORIAL
2015 - 2019 - WINDOW - editor & designer - digital quarterly
2019 – The Dupont Parcels - Mailorder Serial Story - published by Patient Presses
2018 – Buckled – collage artbook – published by Patient Presses
2018 – “The Importance of Classrooms” – article published by The Smudge
2017 – Elements & Manifolds – chapbook - published by Patient Presses
2017 – SPACEbyproxy – chapbook - for the exhibition Precariat curated by Ariel Gentalen at Hyde Park Art Center
2016 – “Reliquary” & “Wabi Grid IV” – from The Vanishing Body SAIC Collected 2016 published by SAIC Press
2014 – “Marginalism Not Vacancy” – essay - Flaunt Magazine.
2013 – “Myotis lucifugis…” – poem from Poetic Inventory of RMNP - published by Wolverine Farm Publishing.
2011 – Concentricities v1: Echoes – poetry chapbook - published by Patient Presses
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2019 - Choir - sound design collaboration with Pope.L
The Whitney Museum, New York, NY.
2019 - Resonance Series - experimental music performance series
The Hideout Inn, Chicago, IL
2019 - Music for Domesticated Gastropods - performance with digital video
Sonic Celluloid XV, Elastic Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2018 – The Escape – directed by Pope.L – musical performance and sound design
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2017 - "Grozi/Babau" - Drawings and mobile device components
Third Annual Poet's Theater Sector 2337, Chicago, IL
2017 - Third Coast International Audio Conference - Re:Sound Live backing musician
Thalia Hall, Chicago, IL
2016 – “Clouds & Shells” – multimedia installation. MFA Show
Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
2015 – Music for “Emak Bakia” – performance sound for the film by Man Ray
Sonic Celluloid XIII, Block Museum, Evanston, IL
2015 – “Geographic Glossolia” – collage – Compound Trace (group show)
Page Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2013 – Sound Performance – New York Art Book Fair, PS1, Queens, NY