Rate My Professor Evan Meaney

Evan Meaney is a Professor of New Media and Video Game Development and Media Arts Program Coordinator in the School of Visual Art and Design within the McCausland College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina. He teaches new media practices, including courses on video game design, new media art, digital media arts fundamentals, and principles of media arts practice. Meaney earned a Bachelor of Science in Cinema and Photography from Ithaca College in 2007 and an M.F.A. in film and video production. He joined the University of South Carolina faculty in 2013 as a media arts associate professor and continues to contribute to the Film and Media program through leadership roles.

An artist, game designer, and developer, Meaney explores the intersection of art and technology, focusing on glitches, liminalities, and virtual reality applications. His creative time-based artworks have been presented worldwide at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, Oi Futuro in Rio de Janeiro, and the U.S. Library of Congress, and are distributed through the Video Data Bank in Chicago. Past appointments include artist-in-residence at the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Experimental Television Center, founding member of GLI.TC/H, super juror for IndieCade, and affiliated researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He contributed to The Atlantic with the article “You Can Delete, but You Can't Forget” in 2014. Meaney received the 2018 Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award for innovative instruction. Currently, he serves as a collaborative researcher with the Center for Predictive Maintenance, UX-design researcher at the Ronald E. McNair Center for Aerospace Innovation, and simulation designer for the Rule of Law Collaborative, developing virtual reality for industry 4.0 deployment. He holds software patents related to virtual reality-based metadata navigation systems.