Meredith Drum

CV

Selected Exhibitions, Screenings and Public Art Events

2020
– Search for Delicious, solo screening of nine of my videos as part of Microscope Gallery’s event series | Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
– Women’s Punk Art Making Parties | screening of “In Residence” before Johanna Demetrakas’s “WomanHouse,” curated by Mary Billyou | Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, NY
– Teachable Moment | Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN, curated by Mike Calway-Fagen
– Women’s History Month Screening Series | “In Residence: A History of A.I.R. Gallery” screening alongside artist talk by A.I.R. founder Howardena Pindell | Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
– Governors Island Unearthed | Issue 16, Underwater NY’s online journal | NYC

2019
– Works on Water and Underwater NY at WoW House | two-person show, Works on Water project space, Governors Island, NYC
– Feels Like a New Beginning | Curated by Peter Fulop + Brigitta Varadi | Chashama 1 Brooklyn Bridge Park, NYC
– Best Foot Forward, Current Seen: Big Ideas, Small Venues | RIT’s City Art Space | Group show curated by Cecily Culver | Rochester, NY
– Conditions of Exchange | Group show curated by Abigail Simon + Esther Boesche | 80 Nassau, NYC
– Light Years: Tales of Diverted Reality | Group screening on the Manhattan Bridge, curators Peter Fulop + Brigitta Varadi | Brooklyn, NY

2018
– Pool Party II, Microscope Gallery | Group screening curated by Elle Burchill | Brooklyn, NY
– Works on Water, House 5B | Group show curated by Underwater NY | Governors Island, NYC
– Green, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, University of Copenhagen | Group show | Copenhagen, Denmark
– Another Experiment by Women Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives | Group screening curated by Lili White | NYC
– aDifferent Film Festival | Group screening, curators Janelle VanderKelen + Takahiro Suzuki | Milwaukee
– animateCologne 5 | Group screening curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne | Cologne, Germany

2017
– Bio-creation and Peace, ISEA | Group show curated by Walter Castaneda + Sergio Sierra | Manizales, Colombia
– Sex Work: Feminist Art + Radical Politics, Frieze London, group show, historical survey 45 Years of AIR Gallery | London, UK
– Vagabond Time Killers, Maxon Mills, | Group Show curated by Eve Biddle, Bowie Zunino + Jeff Barnett-Winsby | Wassaic NY
– Film-makers’ Coop at Next to Nothing Gallery | Group show curated by Mary Billyou | NYC

2016
– Underwater NY, Recess Art | Group show curated by Nicole Haroutunian for Marie Lorenz’s Flow Pool | NYC
– Appetite for Destruction, Maxon Mills | Group Show curated by Eve Biddle, Bowie Zunino and Jeff Barnett-Winsby | Wassaic, NY
– Push Comes to Shove, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art | Group show curated by Sara Cochran | Scottsdale, AZ

2015
– Fish Stories Community Cookbook created with Rachel Stevens, commissioned by Paths to Pier 42: Two Bridges Neighborhood Council, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, LES Ecology Center, and the Hester Street Collaborative | NYC
– Happenland, Radiator Gallery | Group show curated by Eva Davidova and Almudena Baeza Medina | NYC
– Embodied Mapping movement research | Supported by iLand + the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council | NYC
– Mar Sea Sol movement research, Orchard Beach | collaboration w/ Grisha Coleman + Estrella Payton, produced by iLand | NYC

2014
– Locations ISEA | pop-up gallery in a traditional wind-tower building in the Al Fahidi Historic District | Dubai, UAE
– Billion Oyster Project | with the NYC Harbor School | NYC
– The Last Brucennial | Group show curated by the Bruce High Quality Foundation | NYC
– Meat Cleavers and Screen Savers for the New Age, Kunsthalle Gallery, Galapagos Art Space | curated by Jody Wood | NYC

2013
– Now Filmambiente International Environmental Film Festival | Rio de Janeiro, BR
– Open Studios, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space | NYC
– Green Screens, The Film Society of Lincoln Center | NYC
– Terrestrial Transmissions at the University of Virginia’s Ruffin Gallery | Group show curated by Lydia Moyer | Charlottesville, VA

Grants
– 2015 | Lower Manhattan Cultural Council for Fish Stories Community Cookbook, collaboration with Rachel Stevens | $10,000
– 2015 | iLand (Interdisciplinary Lab for Art, Nature and Land) for Embodied Mapping | $1000 each
– 2012 | Wave Farm Distribution Grant for Louisiana Re-storied (a NYS Council on the Arts re-grant) | $2,250
– 2010 | University of California Institute for Research in the Arts Planning Grant | $750
– 2010 | ISSUE Project Room, Emerging Artist Commission | $1,000
– 2008 | Experimental Television Center, Finishing Funds Grant for The Double | $2,000

Selected Paper Presentations + Artist Talks
– 2020 | Why Sentience? “International Symposium of Electronic Arts” and “Printemps Numérique” | Montreal, CA.
– 2020 | Dematerialization of the Art Experience New Media Caucus Panel, College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
– 2019 | Lux Aeterna “International Symposium of Electronic Arts” | Asia Cultural Center, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
– 2018 | Livingroom Light Exchange | Curated by Sarah Burke, Nupur Mathur and Moreshin Allahyari. Brooklyn, NY.
– 2018 | L.A.S.E.R. series | Sponsored by Leonardo/ISAST, curated by Piero Scaruffi. University of San Francisco, CA,
– 2018 | Green, “Society for Literature, Science and the Arts” | University of Copenhagen.
– 2018 | Intersections, “International Symposium of Electronic Arts” | Durban Institute of Technology, Durban, South Africa.
– 2017 | Bio-Creation ands Peace “International Symposium on Electronic Art” | Universidad de Caldes, Manizales, Colombia.
– 2014 | Locations International Symposium on Electronic Art | Zayed University, Dubai, UAE.
– 2014 | Bodies in Between: Corporeality + Visuality from Historical Avant-garde to Social Media | Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
– 2013 | iDMAa International Digital Media and Arts Association Conference | Laguna College of Art and Design, CA
– 2013 | PHATT-B | Panel Chair; panelists – Teri Rueb, Sarah Drury, Mark Skwarek + John Craig Freeman | Pratt Institute NYC
– 2013 | Pratt Manhattan Gallery | artist talk, research and creative work, augmented reality | Pratt Institute NYC
– 2013 | University of Maryland, Digital Cultures + Creativity Honors College | artist talk | Maryland
– 2013 | New Media Caucus during CAA Conference | lightening talk about AR | Feb. 15 | NYC
– 2013 | University of Virginia, Ruffin Gallery | artist talk regarding The Double | Charlottesville, VA
– 2012 | Machine Wilderness “International Symposium of Electronic Arts” | artist talk Oyster City | Albuquerque, NM
– 2012 | Mobility Shifts International Future of Learning Summit | artist talk Oyster City | NYC

Published Scholarly Articles
– 2013 | “Place-based, Somatic Augmented Reality as Critical Practice” | AR(t) Magazine. Web.
– 2013 | “Somatic Shifts: Augmented Reality and the Corporal Body” | Media-N Journal. V9.

Invitational Participation in Benefits
– 2019 | Filmmakers Coop Summer Benefit, Oct 2019
– 2017 | Filmmakers Coop Summer Benefit, invited by Mary Billyou, August 2017
– 2017 | Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Spring Benefit, invited by Kay Takeda, May 2017
– 2017 | Wassaic Project Spring Benefit, invited by Eve Biddle, February 2017
– 2016 | Wassaic Project Spring Benefit, invited by Eve Biddle, February 2016

Selected Press, Interviews and Discussions in Academic Texts
– 2018 Barbara Brown Wilson. Resilience for All: Striving for Equity Through Community-Driven Design. Island Press. | Discussion of Paths to Pier 42 including Fish Stories Community Cookbook (collaboration with Rachel Stevens). Print.
– 2017 Gu, Yan. “Interviews with Feminist Experimental Filmmakers.” | Published online by Irene Lusztig and Julie Wyman. Online.
– 2015 Yip, Jennifer. “The Making of Paths to Pier 42” Online.
– 2015 | Miguel Aguando, Juan. Emerging Perspectives on the Mobile Content Evolution IGI Global. Print.
– 2014 | Lester, Paul. Digital Innovations for Mass Communications: Engaging the Users. Routledge | Discussion of Oyster City. Print.
– 2013 | Moyer, Lyda. “Terrestrial Transmissions: Notes from a curator.” in At Length. Online.
– 2013 | burrough, xtine. Foundations of Digital Art and Design. New Riders/Peachpit Press | inclusion of Oyster City. Print.
– 2013 | “Interview with Meredith Drum” | Stigmart VIDEOFocus. Online.
– 2012 | Machine Wilderness ISEA 2012 catalog | inclusion of Desert Oyster. Print.
– 2009, July 9 | Johnson, Ken. Arts Section, New York Times. | review of AIM 29 at the Bronx Museum of the Arts; Johnson’s review favored my video The Double. Print and online.

Published Creative Writing
– 2017 | “A Score for Mar, Sea, Sol” in A Field Guide to iLanding, 53 State Press and iLand, NYC
– 2002 | “Asha” (short story) in Pierogi Press, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
– 2001 | “On the Ramparts” (short play) in Insurance Magazine, NYC
– 2000 | “Hands”, “Hotel Delano”, “The Mattress”, + “Civic Remedy Almanac” (poems) selected by Guest Editor Paul Muldoon | Ploughshares, Boston, MA

Curatorial Experience
– 2020 | Beyond Tyranny and Fear: the River is Here | Light Year projection on the Manhattan Bridge from Brooklyn. Co-curated with Eva Davidova. Included work by Tabita Rezaire, Jen Liu, Gretta Louw, Jessica Kaya Joan, and Jessica Segall.
– 2017 | Electric Breath | Emerge 2017. Included work by Katie Torn, Claudia Hart, Marina Zurkow, Eva Davidova | Tempe, AZ
– 2017 | Nasty Women Phoenix exhibition and Planned Parenthood Arizona benefit, Phoenix, AZ
– 2010-2011 | Wednesday Night Cinema Society co-programmed w/ Associate Professor Irene Gustafson, screening series, UC Santa Cruz.
– 2010 | Hurricane Season co-programmed w/ Rachel Stevens, ISSUE Project Room.
– 2009 | On the Contrary: Recent Artists’ Videos Concerning War in the Middle East, co-programmer w/ Mary Billyou, SCOPE NYC.
– 2009 | Women’s Experimental Cinema, co-programmer w/ Suzanne Fiol, Marie Losier + Rebecca Cleman, ISSUE Project Room.
– 2007 | Material Matter: American Abstract Artists Annual Show, co-curator with Kat Griefen, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
– 2007 | Curator / Producer, The First Annual Bronx Youth Film Festival, Crotona Park, Bronx, NY.Mike C

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