Evan Meaney is an artist, game designer, and software developer who teaches new media practices at the University of South Carolina as a tenured professor. There, he serves on the faculty of the School of Visual Art and Design (SVAD) in addition to being an UX-design researcher at the Ronald E. McNair Center for Aerospace Innovation and a simulation designer for the Rule of Law Collaborative. Previous project partners and collaborators include NASA, the US Department of Energy, the US Department of State, BMW, and many others.

In the past, Evan has been an artist-in-residence at the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Experimental Television Center, a founding member of GLI.TC/H, a super juror for IndieCade, an affiliated researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and a contributor to The Atlantic. His creative artworks (mostly film, video, and game-based art) have found audiences all over the world, including IFF Rotterdam, Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, Oi Futuro in Rio de Janeiro, and the U.S. Library of Congress. Additionally, he holds a number of software patents related to virtual reality-based metadata navigation systems.

Within academia, Evan has held leadership roles in SVAD's Film and Media program and has been recognized with the Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award for innovative instruction, among other awards for teaching, research, and service.

In his spare time, Evan flies airplanes and bakes bread. His time-based artworks are distributed by the Video Data Bank in Chicago.