| 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 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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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-LP radio, a low power FM station in Davis, California.[2][3]
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).
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 and uploaded to web sites like the Internet archive[5] and YouTube.[6]