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Matt Swift C.V.

Awards and Grants

VSA Ohio “Artist in the Classroom” Residency 08/18 – 03/19
Ohio Arts Council ADAP Grant 2018

Greater Columbus Arts Council Media Arts Fellowship 2014
Greater Columbus Arts Council Equipment/Project Grant 2012-19
Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Short Film GCAC Award 2011-13
OSU Arts and Science Professional Development Grant 2013
OSU Outstanding Academic Partner Nomination 2013
Academic Advisor of the Year Nomination- 2012

Exhibitions
Frondeur 2018
Pennington Custom Art Services
Slow Ascent 2014
SISFF 2015 Official Selection
100 Under 100 – CS Gallery
My Typewriter GCAC Award
2015 GCAC Annual Panel
Ohio State Fair 2014
From Still to Movement
Independents Day 2014
City Lights Everywhere
Independents Day 2014
City Lights – Oglebay Park 2013
Digital Graffiti 2014
Deep Wood Gallery 02-2014
Rural Colors – Northern Ohio  Deep Wood Gallery 02-2014
CIFVF Shorts 3/2014
Rural Colors- Ohio River
Autumn Invocation 2013
City Lights-Columbus
The Video Show 2014
Deep Wood Gallery 02-2014
Autumn Invocation 2013
City Lights GCAC Award
Autumn Invocation 2013
Ohio State Fair 2013
Agora 8 4/2013
kg’ no’atbpqsii bitiin, ( Permanent Way ) 2012
Ohio State Fair 2013
Global Gallery/Autumnal Invocation 8/2012
CBUS/Design Week Screening 9/2012
Agora 8 4/2013
Terminal Vertices of a Path
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 6/2012
Inside Out – 2011
Stepping Down – 7/22-24/2011 – Produced by 4 (Robert Foor) for the 48 Hour Film Project
48 Hour Film Project Columbus, Ohio – Grandview Theater 7/2011
Arrow of Time
 2011 Co-Created with Nikki Swift GCAC Award
The Ohio State Fair 2012
Agora 9 – Junctionview Studios 6/12/2012
Still’n Motion – CS Gallery 6/12/2011
Scenic View2010
Agora 8 – Junctionview Studios 6/14/2011
The Ohio State Fair – 7/27 – 8/7/2011
Project-A-Bug – Still’n Motion 6/18/2011
Project-A-Bug – Gallery Hop 6/4/2011
Appalachian Edge Film Festival 4/13/2011
Cycle of Overuse GCAC Award
The Ohio State Fair 2011
ADD Short Film Festival TBA
Appalachian Edge Film Festival 4/13/2011
Extrication of A Man
BYOB 2012
Still’n Motion – CS Gallery 6/12/2011
Down the Rabbit’s Hole
Project-A-Bug 5/28/2011
Agora 5/2010
FBSPCo-Created with Nikki Swift
Agora 5/2009
24 29 54 2007
Agora 2008
Illusions of the Mind 2008

Professional History
Employment
Ohio State University Film Studies– Academic Advisor 8/2009 –12/2012, Program Coordinator 12/2012- Present
The Journal of Short Film – Production Lead 8/2009 – Present
Nicolettecinemagraphics – Multimedia Specialist 5/2003 – Present
Columbus Museum of Art – Digital Projects Intern 8/2007 – 12/2007
Huntington Archive – Image Specialist Intern 6/2004 – 3/2005

Teaching –
Film Studies 270: Introduction to Film Studies – Ohio State University / Spring 2010, Winter 2011, Winter 2012, Summer 2012
Film Studies 2270: Introduction to Film Studies Online
Ohio State University / Summer 2014
Film Studies 489: Film Studies Internship – Ohio State University / 2009-present

Education –
Ohio State University – Bachelor of Arts – Double Major/ History of Art and Film and Media Studies 2005
Kent State University – Master’s of Library and Information Science 2007

Juror
Columbus International Film + Video Festival – Div.Chair 2011-Pres.
Reelabilities Film Festival Columbus Juror 2013-Present
Wizard World Comic Con Film Festival – 
Juror / 2013
Ohio Governor’s Choice Award – Juror 2011Campus Movie Fest – OSU – Juror 11/2010

Presentations
Better Video and Photo/ Tips and Tricks –
GCAC OppArt Presentations 2013 ,OSU Staff Presentations 2012
Redefining the Orphan Film: An Epidemic of Cinematic Orphans in the 21st Century – Midwest Pop Culture Association Conference 2012
Video from Analog to Digital – OhioDig 2007

Video Work
Art
The Making of Paul Hamilton’s Blue Beautiful Skies
Inspired: Works Capturing the Magic of Flying Horse Farms
Brunch & Conversation: Aminah Robinson with Nannette Maciejunes – July 19, 2014
Brunch & Conversation: Paul Hamilton August 16, 2014
Brunch & Conversation: Marcia Smilack – June 21, 2014
Events
New Albany Arts Council – Little Mermaid Jr. 2013
Arangetrum – Nitika Gaiha 9/2012
RMT @ Concert on the Green – Worthington, Ohio 7/17/2011
2011 Race for the Cure Community Film 5/2011
Events 
New Albany Arts Council – Pinocchio Jr. 2014
New Albany Arts Council – Little Mermaid Jr. 2013
Arangetrum – Nitika Gaiha 9/2012
RMT @ Concert on the Green – Worthington, Ohio 7/17/2011
2011 Race for the Cure Community Film 5/2011
Weddings & Religious Ceremonies
2010 John & Sherihan: Clips VideoZaffa Dance | Beth & Sam
2009 Dunn Ceremony | Ben & Alison | Dani’s Bat Mitzvah
2008 Marie & Jeff | Lora & Jerry | Mitchell’s Bar Mitzvah
2007 Jeremy’s Bar Mitzvah
2006 Christina & Ed | Jesse & Rebecca
Educational
Film Studies 2270 Lecture Videos- Viewable on request
Guiding K-3 Writers to Independence: The New Essentials:
1. 
Oral Language as a Foundation for Writing
2. 
Writing About Reading
3. 
Engaging Children in a Writing Process through Community Writing
4. 
Story Structure as a Support to Meaning Making
Ethnographic
Crockpot studies – Design Central 2008
Editing Work
Batman Watching Over Gotham | Batman Watching Over Gotham (Re-edit) New Realm Acupuncture Promo
ReelAbiltites Film Festival Promo | RMT Songs of America Promo

Projection Performance  –
Emitting Velocity at Body Language
October 2014 – March 2015
1TwoAll – 2012
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 3/2012
BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) 2012

Perceptual Distortion– 2011 16mm Animation, Digital Animation, Live Manipulation
BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) 2012
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 8/2011

Visual Color – 2011 16mm Animation, Text, After Effects Animation
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 7/2011

“…Certain SLant of Light…” – 2011 16mm Animation, Text, After Effects Animation
BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) 2012
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 6/2011

Paradigm – 2010 16mm Animation and After Effects Animation
BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) 2012
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 5/2010

Night Birds – 2010 16mm Animation combined performance with Stacie Sells, Kevin VanScoder and Scott Steelman.
Not a Painful Film Festival/ Gateway Theatre 8/2011