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NICHOLAS SAGAN CHICAGO, IL
Interdisciplinary/New Media Artist
www.nicholassagan.com | nicholassagan.wordpress.com | nicholassagan@yahoo.com
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EDUCATION:
MFA, 2011, Candidate, Interdisciplinary Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago
BFA, 2006, Studio Arts in Painting with Art History and Philosophy Minors, Hamline University, St Paul, MN
EXHIBITIONS:
Orange Skin Gallery, Neocon 2010, Chicago; video installation
Gallery 207, Chicago, 2010; sound installation (SOLO)*
Gallery 207, Chicago, 2009; interactive installation (SOLO)
Gallery 207, Chicago, 2009; sound and video installation (SOLO)
Gallery 207, Chicago, 2009; sound and video installation (SOLO)
Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, 2009
Cornerstone Academy, Chicago, 2009; sound piece for Core Project Chicago
Franklin Bank Gallery, Minneapolis, 2009 (SOLO)
Capstone Gallery, Minneapolis, 2008 (SOLO)
Red Hot Art Festival, Minneapolis, 2007
Capstone Gallery, Minneapolis, 2007
Art Speakeasy Series at Keegan’s Pub, Minneapolis, 2006 (SOLO)
Capstone Gallery, Minneapolis, 2006
Gingko Coffeehouse, St Paul, 2006 (SOLO)
Evoke Gallery, St Paul, 2006
Senior Exhibition, Hamline University, St Paul, 2006
The Art Major, 2404 Nicollet, Minneapolis 2005
The Fulcrum Exhibition, St. Paul, 2005
The Fulcrum Exhibition, St. Paul, 2004
Senior Exhibition, Holmes Landing Cafe, Fountain City, 2002
Student Exhibition, Red Horse Gallery, Fountain City, 2000
* Result of Space Heaters Grant
LECTURES, PERFORMANCES and PRESENTATIONS:
MFA Crawl, Columbia College Chicago, 2010; Artist Talk
New Media Caucus Artist Colloquium and Meet and Greet, Illinois State Museum, 2010; Artist Talk
Capstone Gallery, Minneapolis, 2007, jazz performance
Capstone Gallery, Minneapolis, 2006, jazz performance
The Artist’s Quarter, St Paul, 2006; jazz performance
The Artist’s Quarter, St Paul, November 2005; jazz performance
The Artist’s Quarter, St Paul, August 2005; jazz performance
Lula’s Coffee and Jaz, Minneapolis, 2005, jazz performance
Brilliant Corners, St Paul, 2002, jazz performance
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE:
Co-curator for Post-Human//Future Tense, exhibited at the Arcade Gallery, Columbia College Chicago; Fall 2010
Worked with 3 other colleagues to organize, curate and install exhibition which showcases work from International Graduate students working in New Media or Interdisciplinary Studies. Subject matter of the show is relevant to the current trends in emergent technologies and the positioning of graduate students to those technologies. Exhibited work not only shows how current graduate students interpret the idea of Posthumanism through the development of new technologies, but how those fit into a larger cultural and theoretical context.
In addition, a catalog featuring exhibited works with supplemental writings relevant to the Crititcal Theory of Posthumanism will be compiled, edited and published.
AWARDS and HONORS:
Graduate Opportunity Award for 2010-2011
Campus Environments Space Heaters Grant, 2009
Graduate Assistantship, Columbia College Chicago, 2008-current
2nd Place, Jazz Combo Performance, UW Eau Claire Jazz Competition, 2006
2nd Place, 2nd Annual MamaDada Art Contest, 2005
3rd Place, 1st Annual MamaDada Art Contest, 2004
Louis Armstrong Jazz Award, 2002
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
New Media Caucus, 2009-current
College Artists Association, 2009-current
IMAGe Unit (Interdisciplinary Media Arts Group); President 2009-10; 2008-current
International Association of Jazz Educators, 2004-2006
PUBLICATIONS:
Picturing Recent Futures: Architecture of Fantastical Dormancy, Epicenter Press, Chicago, 2009
Constructing the Night Sky, 2009
The Fulcrum Arts Journal 2005
The Fulcrum Arts Journal 2004
COLLECTIONS:
Hamline University Permanent Collection, St. Paul, MN
Leonardo Lasanksy, St. Paul, MN
Capstone Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Private Collections of Prussing Residence, Fountain City, WI; Weber Residence, Buffalo City, WI; Peterson Residence, Waukesha, WI; Buchbinder/Jacques Residence, Chicago, IL; Harris Residence, Chicago, IL; Greene Residence, Chicago, IL; Estarr Residence, Columbus, OH; Nichols Residence, Chicago, IL.
SKILLS and EMPLOYMENT:
- Documentation Videographer for the Adler Planetarium’s Skydome Theater renovation; 2010-current
- Printmaking assistant to Dr. Angela Geary of Northumbria University, UK and Paul Catanese of Columbia College Chicago; studios of Anchor Graphics and Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL; Summer 2010
- Teaching Assistant to Jenny Magnus and Sherry Antonini, Columbia College Chicago; Summer 2010
- Media Coordinator and Technical Producer for “Carnival of Voices” by Shalaka Kulkarni, MFA performance, Columbia College Chicago, 2010
- New Media Caucus; Event Technical Coordinator during 2010 CAA Conference;
Acted as technical and volunteer coordinator, under the advisement of New Media Caucus (NMC) President Paul Catanese, for multiple events hosted by the NMC throughout the course of the 2010 College Art Association Conference. Was responsible for managing equipment/technical needs for presentations, panels and performances; assembled and managed a team of six student volunteers to assist with NMC event technical coordination and documentation; responsible for documentation gathering, editing and dissemination.
- IMAGe Unit President (Interdisciplinary Media Arts Group), 2009-2010
- Contributing Member of College Artist Association 2010 Live Blogging Team; 2010
- Assistant Technical Coordinator for Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Department, Columbia College Chicago; 2009-current
- Teaching Assistant to Jenny Magnus and Sherry Antonini, Columbia College Chicago; Summer 2009
- Teaching Assistant to Jeanine Mellinger, Columbia College Chicago; Fall 2008
- Gallery Assistant and Framing Technician, Capstone Gallery/ Frame Ups; 2006-2008
- Television Studio Manager/Producer, Hamline University; 2004-2006
- Television Studio Producer, Hamline University; 2002-2004
In addition I have extensive experience with software suites such as Adobe CS5 (primarily Photoshop, Acrobat Pro, In Design and Illustrator); Avid DV; Final Cut Pro Studio 4 (Final Cut, DVD Studio, Compressor and Soundtrack Pro); Max 5 (Max/MSP/Jitter); Processing; Arduino; Isadora; Reason; Google Sketchup; Omnigraffle; Partiview/Digital Universe; Mac OS; Windows and more.