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
EXHIBITIONS & SPECIAL PERFORMANCES
2022 - Sound Performance - Opening for Chihei Hatakayama
Floating @ Storier Stearns Japanese Tea Garden. Pasadena, CA.
2021 - Sound Performance - Opening for Sam Prekop & John McEntire
Constellation, Chicago, Il
2020 - "Longform" - curating/hosting 20+ hours of ambient/experimental streaming performances
Cached.Media (online series)
2019 – “Choir” – collaboration with Pope.L – sound design to accompany installation and sculpture
Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
2019 – “WHAT IS THE BIG IDEA?” - Beginning to See the Light group show – installation & wall painting
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2018 – “The Escape” – performance 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 & scoring
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
CLASSROOM & TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2017-2020 Faculty – Communications, Media, Theater Department
Northeastern Illinois University
CMTM377 – Gender & Media
CMTM366 – Multimedia Story Telling
CMTM364a - Writing the Sitcom
CMTM306a - Video Games and Interactive Media Studies
CMTC305 – WIP: Academic Writing for Media Studies
CMTM250 – Intro to Audio Production
CMTM160 – Introduction to Cinema
Honors’ Thesis Advisor
McNair Research Scholarship Mentor
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
EXPERIENCE
2020-2022 Cached.Media
Publisher/Owner/Operator/Curator/Editor/Designer/Mailroom
Private Press Intermedia Imprint & Broadcaster
www.cached.media
2009-2019 Patient Sounds / Patient Presses
Publisher/Owner/Operator/Curator/Editor/Designer/Mailroom
Private Press Record Label & Book Publisher
www.patientsounds.com
AWARDS
2012 Poet Laureate, Fort Collins, CO
2010/2011 Best Experimental Musician - Fort Collins Music Association, Fort Collins, CO
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY & EDITORIAL
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 at Hyde Park Art Center
2016 – “Reliquary” & “Wabi Grid IV” – from The Vanishing Body Collected 2016 published by SAIC Press
2014 – “Marginalism Not Vacancy” – essay - Flaunt Magazine.
2013 – “Myotis lucifugis…” – from Poetic Inventory of RMNP - published by Wolverine Farm Publishing.
2011 – Concentricities v1: Echoes – poetry chapbook - published by Patient Presses