Drum
Personal information
- Last name
- Drum
- Position
- Digital Media Artist
- Website
- http://www.meredithdrum.com
- Brief Bio
Meredith Drum creates new forms of documentary combining cutting edge digital media skills and rigorous academic research, including consultation with scientists, historians, journalists, activists and other artists. Meredith has an international exhibition record, with works recently exhibited / screened at the Bronx Museums of the Arts, Anthology Film Archives, Fales Library and Archive at NYU, Voltahalle Basel, Switzerland, the Museo Valenciano de la Illustracion y la Modernidad, Valencia, Spain and the City Hall Square, Copenhagen, among other places. In a NYTimes review, July 2009, senior art critic Ken Johnson called Meredith an artist to watch. Additionally, she has published videos online on the NYTimes Tmagazine and Good Magazine. Meredith seeks to collaborate with others to break new ground at the juncture of social documentary and new technologies.
- Full Bio
Meredith Drum creates new forms of documentary combining cutting edge digital media skills and rigorous academic research, including consultation with scientists, historians, journalists, activists and other artists. As an MFA student at UCSC, she is producing a web-based critical geography visualizing and clarifying the economic, political, social and environmental impact of oil extraction worldwide. Her starting point is a book of investigative journalism, Crude World, by New York Times reporter Peter Maass. The project is also inspired by a growing body of cultural productions, which use mapping as a critical tool to discuss human interaction with the land. Meredith has an international exhibition record, with works recently exhibited / screened at the Bronx Museums of the Arts, Anthology Film Archives, Fales Library and Archive at NYU, Voltahalle Basel, Switzerland, the Museo Valenciano de la Illustracion y la Modernidad, Valencia, Spain and the City Hall Square, Copenhagen, among other places. In a NYTimes review, July 2009, senior art critic Ken Johnson called Meredith an artist to watch. Additionally, she has published videos online on the NYTimes Tmagazine and Good Magazine. Moreover, Meredith has an eleven-year background teaching media arts. In 2006, with her Bronx based students she traveled to the Gulf Coast to teach video skills to young people displaced by Hurricane Katrina. In 2007, with the same group of students, she produced a documentary about alternative sentencing programs for adolescents. Meredith seeks to collaborate with others to break new ground at the juncture of social documentary and new technologies.
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