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
EXPERIENCE
2020 Editor / Publisher
Cached Media
Intermedia Publishing Platform
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
TEACHING
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
FREELANCE / COMMISSION
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.
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
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
AWARDS
2012 Poet Laureate, Fort Collins, CO
2010 / 2011 Best Experimental Musician
Fort Collins Music Association, Fort Collins, CO