Meredith Drum is a multimedia artist working with video, animation, installation, augmented reality, and various modes of public participation. Her artworks and exhibitions incorporate methods and forms drawn from experimental cinema, documentary filmmaking, art education, socially-engaged practice, and cultural theory.
Considering a future beset by environmental, social, economic, and political trouble due to climate change, she collaborates with others to cultivate care for others, both humans and non-humans. She employs various emerging technologies in order to study and subvert the immense power that computational devices and programs have on the world. She uses technology ethically, critically, and joyfully.
She is influenced by science fiction, cinema history, socialist feminism, climate justice, multispecies anthropology, and contemporary visual culture. She is energized by getting lost in giant cities, swimming in the ocean, hiking through forests, riding bikes, and loving her family, friends, and cats.
Drum’s work has been supported by grants and residencies with The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, CEC Arts Link, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, iLand (Interdisciplinary Lab for Art, Nature + Dance), the Wassaic Project, the Experimental Television Center, ChaNorth, ISSUE Project Room, the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, Wave Farm Transmission Arts with the New York State Council on the Arts, and others.
She has enjoyed several solo exhibitions and screenings, including at Microscope Gallery, NY, NY. And her work has been part of numerous group exhibitions and screenings across the U.S. and in Brazil, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, France, Mexico and Spain.
Drum earned her MFA at the University of California Santa Cruz; she studied with Helen and Newton Harrison, Soraya Murray, Jennifer González, Irene Lusztig, Warren Sack, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, and Karen Barad.
She has had a long history as an educator, which has strongly impacted her creative initiatives. For twelve years, she worked with public high school students in New York City on art, video, animation, and creative writing initiatives with a social justice focus through a range of organizations including the DreamYard’s A.C.T.I.O.N. Project, the Museum of the Moving Image, and Teachers & Writers Collaborative.
She is now an Associate Professor in the School of Visual Art at Virginia Tech. With her husband, artist Mitch Miller, and their cats, Cleo and George, she lives in a house that Mitch built for them in the forest.
Here is Drum’s abbreviated CV. If you would like a complete CV, or have any questions, write to her via the contact form or directly: meredithdrum at gmail.com
