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Sharon Daniel
EducationMFA University of Tennessee, Knoxville; MM University of Texas, Austin; BM Baylor University
Known forNew Media Art, Film, Digital Media
Notable workPublic Secrets, Need_X_Change, Narrative Contingencies, Palabras
Awards2008 Media Arts Fellowship from the Tribeca Film Institute[1] Honoree at the 11th Annual Webby Awards[2]

Sharon Daniel is a digital media artist[3][4] and a professor in the Film and Digital Media department and serves as chair for the Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[5] Along with teaching classes about digital media, Daniel does field research for new media projects.[6] Her essays have been published in analytical and research journals such as Sarai and Leonardo. Selected projects of Daniel's have been presented at festivals, including the Lincoln Center Festival, the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, Ars Electronica, and the Corcoran Biennial.[5][better source needed]

Daniel is an activist involved with the organization Justice Now,[7] and her association with it allowed her to circumvent the media ban enacted on all of the California Department of Corrections facilities in 1993. She was able to gain media access due to her role as a legal advocate for Justice Now, which allowed her the opportunity to speak with several inmates and document their stories.[8][9] Daniel's experiences with inmates in California's Department of Corrections led to the creation of Public Secrets.

Daniel's theory on databases has been published in Database Aesthetics.[10] Her article, "The Database: An Aesthetics of Dignity", illustrates how they can be used as an aesthetic that interacts with cultural or social aesthetics.

Projects

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Palabras, 2004-2006

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Palabras was an interactive archive that was composed of digital images and videos created by communities from San Francisco, California; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Darfur, Sudan. Its goal was to foster relationships between the different communities through the sharing of digital images and video.

Public Secrets, 2008

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Public Secrets is an interactive website with sound clips and textual narratives from female inmates in California state prisons.[11] It addresses the problem of secrecy among the growing number of prisons. Daniel narrates the opening sequence.[8][failed verification] It details the personal accounts of the women in the facilities, and it exposes ideas of "the existence of the Prison Industrial Complex, its pervasive network of monopolies, [and] its human rights abuses".[12] Many of the stories have been censored because of an imposed media ban on all facilities within the California Department of Corrections.[13]

Blood Sugar, 2011

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Blood Sugar, like Public Secrets, provides an interactive interface to an audio archive of stories. These stories are from injection drug users.[14] Steve Anderson notes that "Like Public Secrets, Blood Sugar aims to fill a gap in the cultural discourse surrounding disenfranchised individuals and stigmatized communities by simply making their voices available to be heard."[15] This work, originally published in Vectors Journal, is featured in The NEXT Museum, Archive, and Preservation Space.[16] Marjorie Luesebrink reviewed Sharon Daniels Blood Sugar in #WomenTechLit as a landmark innovation.[17]

Inside the Distance, 2013

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This collection of interviews documents mediation practices in Belgium between offenders and crime victims.[18] This interactive documentary focuses on restorative justice, which brings victims and offenders face-to-face, facilitated by mediators.[19] This project has been exhibited at the European Forum for Restorative Justice[20] and the U.S. National Center on Restorative Justice.[21]

Undoing Time, 2019

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This multimedia installation, with online archives, combines the flags, targets, and uniforms prisoners make with testimonies from incarcerated men and women.[18] These stories cover "a wide array of issues central to historical work on the carceral state: police brutality, prison labor, solitary confinement, felony disfranchisement, unnatural disasters, and violations of people's civil, constitutional, and human rights.[22]

References

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  1. ^ "Sharon Daniel honored by Tribeca Film Institute for artistic excellence". Archived from the original on May 28, 2010. Retrieved October 28, 2009.
  2. ^ "UC Santa Cruz professor honored in 11th annual Webby Awards". Archived from the original on June 13, 2010. Retrieved October 29, 2009.
  3. ^ "Sharon Daniel | Arts Research Center". arts.berkeley.edu. Retrieved April 12, 2025.
  4. ^ "Sharon Daniel: Inside The Distance". National Center on Restorative Justice. November 17, 2021. Retrieved April 12, 2025.
  5. ^ a b "Sharon Daniel | Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz". film.ucsc.edu. Archived from the original on July 25, 2021. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
  6. ^ Olmos, Adriel (October 2, 2008). "What Art Can Do: The Transformative Work of Sharon Daniel". CITRIS and the Banatao Institute. Archived from the original on September 23, 2023. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
  7. ^ Rappaport, Scott (May 8, 2007). "UC Santa Cruz professor honored in 11th annual Webby Awards." Archived June 14, 2021, at the Wayback Machine News.USC.edu. Retrieved June 14, 2021.
  8. ^ a b "Home". VectorsJournal. Archived from the original on July 31, 2021. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
  9. ^ "Justice now". Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved October 28, 2009.
  10. ^ "Database Aesthetics". University of Minnesota Press. Archived from the original on July 25, 2021. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
  11. ^ "Celebrating Women in E-Lit". Electronic Literature Lab. Retrieved April 12, 2025.
  12. ^ "Public Secrets: information and social knowledge - Mambo". 2006.01sj.org. Archived from the original on July 1, 2012. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
  13. ^ "Community Domain - The Public Secret - Daniel". www.intelligentagent.com. Archived from the original on November 9, 2020. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
  14. ^ "i-docs in public spaces: Convictions, by Sharon Daniel". i-Docs. October 18, 2013. Retrieved April 12, 2025.
  15. ^ "Vectors Journal: Blood Sugar - Editor's Introduction". vectors.usc.edu. Retrieved April 12, 2025.
  16. ^ "Blood Sugar". The NEXT. Retrieved April 12, 2025.
  17. ^ #WomenTechLit. West Virginia University Press Computing Literature. p. 16.
  18. ^ a b Burkes, Polly (January 20, 2017). "FAU Exhibition Aims to Critique and Deconstruct Institutional Racism and Prison Industrial Complex" (PDF). Florida Atlantic University (Press release). Boca Raton, Florida.
  19. ^ "Sharon Daniel: Inside The Distance". National Center on Restorative Justice. November 17, 2021. Retrieved April 12, 2025.
  20. ^ "| European Forum for Restorative Justice". www.euforumrj.org. Retrieved April 12, 2025.
  21. ^ "Sharon Daniel: Inside The Distance". National Center on Restorative Justice. November 17, 2021. Retrieved April 12, 2025.
  22. ^ Weber, Benjamin D. (March 1, 2020). "Undoing Time". Journal of American History. 106 (4): 1149–1151. doi:10.1093/jahist/jaz833. ISSN 0021-8723.
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