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
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
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 Cached.Media
Publisher/Owner/Operator/Curator/Editor/Designer/Mailroom
Private Press Intermedia Imprint & Broadcaster
2009 - 2019 Patient Sounds / Patient Presses
Publisher/Owner/Operator/Curator/Editor/Designer/Mailroom
Private Press Record Label & Book Publisher
FREELANCE/COMMISSION
Writing, Editing, Audio/Video Production, Design, Consultation, Installations, Etc…
CLIENTS INCLUDE:
The Whitney Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, Ghostly International, Reverb, Third Coast International Audio Festival, Noumenal Loom Records, Students of Decay, Flaunt Magazine, Wolverine Farm Publishers, Private Collectors.
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
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
2020 - Fuubutsushi - CD - Cached Media
2019 – Catch a Blessing – LP – Geographic North Records
2018 – Astrolabe EP – cassette – Noumenal Loom
2016 – Rife w/ Typo – cassette – Orange Milk Records
2014 – A Singular Continent – 2xLP and artbook – Patient Sounds
2014 – Data in the Details – cassette – Geographic North Records
2013 – Lux Collapsing/Lux Collapsed – cassette / 7” lathe cut – Patient Sounds
2013 – Camouflage Repertoire – cassette – Patient Sounds