Jesse McLean

Jesse McLean is a media artist and educator whose research is motivated by a deep curiosity about human behavior and relationships, especially as presented and observed through mediated images. Interested both in the power and the failure of the mediated experience to bring us together, McLean's work asks the viewer to walk the line between voyeur and participant. She has presented her work at museums, galleries, and film festivals worldwide, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Venice Film Festival, Italy; Transmediale, Berlin; 25 FPS Festival, Zagreb, Croatia; European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; Interstate Projects and PPOW Gallery, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; Gallery 400, Chicago; Impakt, Utrecht, The Netherlands; CPH:DOX, Copenhagen; Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany; and the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH. McLean is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature at University of Iowa.

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  Light Needs

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  Lose Yourself

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  Curious Fantasies

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• Relations

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• Trust Falls

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  Climbing

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  Remote

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• Magic for Beginners

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• 2026PlaceholderSelf
• 2023Light NeedsDirector
• 2020Curious FantasiesDirector
• 2017Wherever You Go, There We AreDirector
• 2016See a Dog, Hear a DogDirector
• 2015I'm in Pittsburgh and it's RainingDirector
• 2013Just Like UsDirector
• 2012The Invisible WorldDirector
• 2011Trust FallsDirector
• 2011RemoteDirector
• 2011Lose YourselfDirector
• 2010RelationsDirector
• 2010Magic for BeginnersDirector
• 2009Somewhere Only We KnowDirector
• 2009ClimbingDirector
• 2009The Burning BlueDirector
• 2008The Eternal Quarter InchDirector
• 2003Celebration of LightsDirector
• —CloneDirector