Matt Joynt (b. 1983) is a Chicago-based composer, artist and political activist whose work engages the multivalent political histories of sound, sonic archives, and sound as site. His composition projects for film have premiered at Sundance Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, IFC New York, SXSW Film Festival, and The Gene Siskel Film Center and have been featured extensively in media work for The New York Times, The New Yorker, PBS Independent Lens, Netflix, HBO and more. Collaborative projects - as a member of InCUBATE and with Josh Rios and Anthony Romero as Sonic Insurgency Research Group - have been exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Pulitzer Art Foundation, Smart Museum of Art, ICA Boston, The National Music Centre in Calgary, Luminary Arts in St. Louis, Autzen Gallery at Portland State University, the Devos Museum at Northern Michigan University, Center for Book and Paper Arts, The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and VPAM in Los Angeles.

2017 Emmy Outstanding New Approaches: Current News Award —The Fight for Falluja , The New York Times
2020 Emmy for Outstanding Feature Story in a Newscast — The Gallagher Effect , The New York Times
2019 Oscar Shortlist — Fire in Paradise , Netflix

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b. 1983
Chicago, IL

Northwestern University
Art History Cum Laude

READ “Sonic Legal Space: An Essay of Overdubs”, OpenWorks, Columbia University, written with Sonic Insurgency Research Group

READ “The Siren and Social Space: An Essay in Fourteen Stanza”, written with Josh Rios, ON Journal, Issue No. 3: Rules