Todd Mattei

907 N Sacramento
Chicago, IL, 60614
toddmattei630@gmail.com
773-960-4033

Selected Artist Exhibitions and Screenings

COMA #17.
Group show, Feb. 2008, California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago.

Red Rover Experiment #17: A Tribute to Hannah Weiner
Spare Room Gallery, Chicago Nov. 2007. http://www.spareroomchicago.org/events.html

Heaven Gallery
Collaborative video installation with the artist Wes Kline, August 2007.

Green Lantern
with Mathias Kristersson, June 2007, Chicago.  I showed alongside Kristersson for the month and also performed music with experimental group Male.
http://www.thegreenlantern.org/indexgallery.html

Rowland Contemporary Anniversary Show
with Robert Macdonald at Rowland Contemporary. September 2006. See www.rowlandcontemporary.com

COMA # 5.
Group show, July 2006, Chicago. See www.occidentalmuseum.org

Drive of Eyes.
Two-person show with Kelly Kaczynski. Rowland Contemporary, Chicago. 
Feb. 2006.

Again.
Group show, Publico Gall ery. Cincinnati, OH. January, 2006.

Moles not Molars #3: .
Third of an ongoing series of readings and video screenings at various locations in the Philadelphia area. In association with the poetry program at Temple University. June 2005.

War at a Distance: New Videos from the American Heartland
curated by Jennifer Montgomery, Milwaukee Art Museum, Spring 2005.

Gallery 400.
MFA Thesis Show with Andy Young and Lauren Portada. April 2005.

NOVA Young Art Fair.
Exhibition of new art in the Chicago area during the weekend of Art in Chicago, a larger art fair. Spring, 2005.

Onion City Film Festival. 
Annual film festival dedicated to experimental film and video work from around the country, Chicago Filmmakers, 2004.

Formfit.
University of Illinois at Chicago, MFA group show. 2004.

Strictly Ballroom
Group show and screening at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music. The videos, gallery works, and sound pieces all addressed issues around sound and digitality. November, 2002.

World of Wonder.
Screening of films of videos. Artists’ Television Access, San Fancisco. Spring 2003.

Third Stree Inside/Out
Installation/performance installation curated by Jeannene Pryblyski. Swell Gallery, San Francisco. March 2003.

Fabulous New Sounds.
Sound art and music performance, San Francisco Art Institute lecture hall, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Charles Boone. 2002.

Music + Music Video

Joan of Arc:
Have written, recorded, and performed with this band on and off since 2000. Contributions to the albums Live in Chicago, 1999 (Jade TreeRecords), The Gap (Jade Tree Records), So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness (Jade Tree Records), In Rape Fantasy and Terror Sex We Trust (Perishable Records), Presents Guitar Duets(Polyvinyl Records), and the upcoming Boo! Human
.
The Margin Suites
A set of compositions created with sound artist and musician Rick Gribenas for the book Participatory Autonomy.The book/record is available through Autonomedia as a set.

Friend/Enemy:
Friend/Enemy (Perishable Records) More improvisational and free form record with members of Joan of Arc and other Chicago bands including Azita and Euphone.

Sharks and Seals:
5 piece with whom I made two records as well as toured Europe and Japan. The records: It Used to be Knobs and Machines Now it’s Numbers and Light (Brillianted Records) and It’s Hard Not to Mean Anything (Is Collage Collective [Japanese Label]).

Music Video Work

Produced an animated video for Costa Music, for the song
Canary Landscape (out on Still Recordings Records).

Edited an extended video piece, directed by Mary Sherer,
for Lichens on the record Omns (Kranky Records.). The video itself
can be played off the music release.

See http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/42588-lichens-omns

Education

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. MFA in Film/Video/Animation, 2005.

San Francisco Art Institute, CA. Post-Bac certificate in New Genres, 2002.

Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. BA in English and Philosophy, 1997.

               Education Awards

               Larson Scholarship winner for the 2003-2004 academic year,
               University of Illinois at Chicago.

               Dean’s List 1993-1994 academic year, fall of 1994, 1995-1996
               academic year, spring of 1997, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Work

After School Matters
A city-wide after school program. Fall 07-Spring 08, courses in video production and critical viewing.  Juarez High School, Chicago.

Final Cut Pro
Class at Chicago Filmmakers. Fall of 2008.

Adjunct Professor 
Motion Graphics 2. Moving Image 2. University of Illinois, Chicago.
Spring 2007.

Adjunct Professor
Motion Graphics 1 and Moving Image 1. University of Illinois at Chicago.
Fall 2006.

Adjunct Professor
Animation 1 and Advanced Animation. University of Illinois at Chicago.
Spring 2006.

Adjunct Professor
Animation 1.  and Video 2. University of Illinois at Chicago. Fall 2005.

Instructor of Record
for AD170, Introduction to Time-Based Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Spring 2005, Summer 2005, Fall 2005.

Freelance Work in Video, Motion Graphics, and Photography
for companies such as AT&T, Kranky Records, and Chris Strong Photography,
and artists of note such as the Chicago artist Doug Ischar.

Administrative Assistant:
Office of Financial Aid at the San Francisco Art Institute, 2001-2002.
San Francisco, CA.

Facets Cinemateque:
rentals department, 2000-2001. Chicago, IL.

Miscellaneous