Jesse Drew

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Jesse Drew

Nationality American
Field Video Art
Training University of Texas
Movement media art, documentary
Works Manifestoon
Awards Best Documentary at University of Cincinnati Film Festival, Festival Award at Hallwalls Festival

Jesse Drew is an American artist, media activist, and educator. He is currently acting director of the Technocultural Studies program at the University of California at Davis[1]. In his early life, Drew was a union organizer which influenced his later media work; working collaboratively, using art as advocacy, and critiquing labor. His work has shown at the 1993 Whitney Biennial, the Mill Valley Film Festival, Artist Television Access, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, American Film Institute, and others.

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[edit] Media work

Drew has worked extensively on community media projects including the San Francisco Community Television and Paper Tiger Television. He has also been an advocate for Low-power broadcasting and helped found KDRT radio, a low power FM station in Davis, California[2][3].

[edit] Writing

Drew's writings have been published in Resisting the Virtual Life (City Lights Press) and Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture (City Lights Press) as well as Processed World, and Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination After 1945 (University Of Minnesota Press).

[edit] Manifestoon

One of Drew's best known works is "Manifestoon," a collage of classic cartoons edited to help illustrate the narration: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' Communist Manifesto. When the clips are re-contextualized, the subversive nature of "the trickster" character in classic cartoons is presented in a new perspective.[4].

The video has been shown at large institutions such as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Barcelona Cultural Center as well as widely distributed online on sites like archive.org and youtube.

[edit] External Links

  • JesseDrew.com official website
  • Boing Boing on Manifestoon
  • Andrew Fies. "Can Movies Make a Difference?", ABC News, June 14, 2007. Retrieved on 2008-05-29. "Are the gadfly director's ambitions for his movie unrealistic? Jesse Drew, who teaches documentary film at the University of California Davis, argues that documentaries can alter policy and culture. He thinks "Sicko" will amplify the pressure on policymakers to reform health care. "It will open to a mass audience," he said, "and it's not going to be lost on politicians. They know that many of their constituents will see these issues raised and there's going to be a link made that they have to deal with some of these issues."" 
  • Chris Rue. "Technology in Culture", California Aggie, May 22, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-05-29. "Here at UC Davis, the intersection is explored in Technocultural Studies, an undergraduate program with an assortment of interdisciplinary courses and innovative media equipment available for students. Jesse Drew, director and co-creator of the Technocultural Studies (TCS) major, said he sees the interaction between technology and culture daily." 

[edit] References

  1. ^ Film Studies page on Drew at UC Davis website
  2. ^ Video Data Bank page on Jesse Drew,
  3. ^ Jesse Drew's bio
  4. ^ Manifestoon on Drew's site
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