MEREDITH TROMBLE
artist
Madam Entropy, 2011 - ongoing (performance lectures)
Still from Scale Undone, 2024, at The Marsh, Berkeley, CA, USA
Madame Entropy is a mischievous persona who began participating, unannounced, in my public lectures about contemporary art in 2011. Intent on conveying knowledge about art that doesn’t fit into words, she began presenting her own performance lectures in 2022, on topics ranging from the collapse of a famous art school (The Lecture That Changed My Life, 2022) to creativity and statistics (A Few Creative Numbers, 2023). Most of her performances are live format only, but Scale Undone has been documented in video and adapted for publication in the volume Visions of Scale, forthcoming from Bloomsbury.
Madam Entropy Performance History
• Artist Talk, 3 performances: Sharp Museum, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland, CA; Art History Department, Texas A&M, College Station, 2024
• Scale Undone, 2 performances: The Marsh, Berkeley, 2023; SLSA, Southern Methodist University and University of Texas, Dallas, 2024
• How to See, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, 2024
• A Few Creative Numbers, The Marsh, Berkeley, CA, 2023
• The Lecture That Changed My Life, The Marsh, Berkeley, CA, 2022
• Creativity to the Nth, SLSA, Georgia Tech and Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2016
• Madame Entropy Answers A Question About Contemporary Art, Djerassi Artist Residency, Woodside, CA, 2014
• Electricity in the Air: A Personal Account of Electronic Art and the Transformation of Art Practice, Gale Memorial Lecture & Electronic Arts Series, University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, 2012
• Images Outrun Theory, Digital Inquiry Symposium, Berkeley Center for New Media, University of California, Berkeley, 2012
• Does Art Produce Knowledge?, Townsend Center, University of California, Berkeley, 2011