Meredith Drum




Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • Virginia Tech, _Professor

Other Affiliation(s):


  • Arizona State University

ISEA Bio(s) Available:


  • ISEA2022

    Meredith Drum is an interdisciplinary artist working with animation, installation, augmented reality, video, and various modes of public participation. Her projects center around the cultivation of care for others, both humans and nonhumans. She often exhibits in New York City, her former home, including a 2020 solo screening at Microscope Gallery. She has also presented internationally including at the 2022 Visible Evidence Conference in Poland, ISEA 2018 in South Africa, ISEA 2017 in Colombia, and ISEA 2014 in the UAE. She has been supported by grants and residencies from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, iLand, the Wassaic Project, the Experimental Television Center, ChaNorth, ISSUE Project Room, the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, HASTAC, Wave Farm Transmission Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.

    ISEA2020

    Meredith Drum is an interdisciplinary artist working with video, animation, installation, augmented reality, and various modes of public participation. Her projects center around the cultivation of care for others, particularly the vulnerable, especially non-human life. Her work is influenced by many things, not limited to climate justice, multispecies anthropology, cinema history, cultural studies, intersectional feminism, game studies, science fiction, and contemporary visual culture.

    ISEA2019

    Meredith  Drum  is  a  research-based  artist   and   professor. She produces videos and animations as  single-screen  shorts  and multi-screen installations; in addition  to  her  solo  work  she often collaborates with other visual artists as well as  dancers, writers, urban planners, computer programmers, and scientists on book projects, public  art,  movement  research,  and augmented reality initiatives. Her work is influenced by feminist art history, cinema studies, environmental justice, feminist science studies, game studies, science fiction, multispecies anthropology, and contemporary visual culture.

    ISEA2014

    Meredith Drum, Arizona State University, US.

    ISEA2012

    Meredith Drum is an interdisciplinary artist working with video, animation, installation, and various modes of public participation. Drum is an Assistant Professor in the School of Visual Art at Virginia Tech, USA.


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Last Known Location:


  • United States of America




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