Jesse Drew
| Jesse Drew | |
|---|---|
| Born | New York, NY |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | San Francisco State University |
| Known for | Video Art |
| Notable work | Manifestoon |
| Movement | media art, documentary |
| Awards | Best Documentary at University of Cincinnati Film Festival, Festival Award at Hallwalls Festival |
Jesse Drew is an American artist, author, media activist, and educator.
Jesse Drew was born at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village, New York. He spent his early childhood in Queens, NY, before the family moved to Hicksville, NY, home of Levittown. He became a teenage runaway at age 15, and lived on communes in Vermont and California. In 1974, he was a candidate for the State Legislature of Vermont on the Liberty Union Party ticket with Bernie Sanders. Because of his runaway status, he ran under the name of Jesse Clemens. In 1975, he was recruited by Fred Ross to work for the United Farmworkers Union in California. He was a boycott organizer in San Francisco before moving into industrial organizing in the San Francisco Bay Area
In 1982, he moved to Paris, France with his wife and child and became involved in media production. Upon returning to the United States in 1984, he joined the nascent video collective Paper Tiger TV, and started a West Coast branch. At the same time, he began working as an electronics technician at several start-ups and then Dolby Laboratories. He worked with the ‘zine collective Processed World as a writer, editor and collective member. In 1986, he helped to organize the first public access television network, Deep Dish TV and in 1989, formed Mission Creek Video with Carla Leshne in San Francisco’s Mission District.
He is a professor in the Cinema and Technocultural Studies (CaTS) program at the University of California at Davis.
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. His work has shown at the 1993 Whitney Biennial, the Mill Valley Film Festival, Artists' Television Access, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, American Film Institute, and others.
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