- 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 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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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-LP radio, a low power FM station in Davis, California.[2][3]
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).
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 and uploaded to web sites like the Internet archive[5] and YouTube.[6]
References
- ^ Film Studies page on Drew at UC Davis website
- ^ Video Data Bank page on Jesse Drew,
- ^ Jesse Drew's bio
- ^ Manifestoon on Drew's site
- ^ Manifestoon at archive.org
- ^ [1]
External links
- JesseDrew.com official website
- Jesse Drew in the Video Data Bank
- Cory Doctorow: Communist Manifesto remixed from vintage toons BoingBoing November 14, 2006 (on Manifestoon)
- Andrew Fies (June 14, 2007). "Can Movies Make a Difference?". ABC News. http://www.abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=3278292&page=1. Retrieved 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 (May 22, 2008). "Technology in Culture". California Aggie. http://www.californiaaggie.com/article/862. Retrieved 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."
Categories:- Living people
- American conceptual artists
- American contemporary artists
- Video artists
- Artists from California
- University of California, Davis faculty
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