Campus Directory

Pronouns She, Her

Division Arts Division

Department/College/Unit Film and Digital Media Department

Title Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Science & Justice Research Center
Digital Arts and New Media

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Critical Practice
Digital Arts
Documentary Film
Environmental Justice
Human Rights
Law and Policy
Media Art
New Media
Social Documentation
Social Justice

Web Site

Primary Office Location Digital Arts Research Center
251

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours by appointment

Mail Stop Film and Digital Media

Biography, Education and Training

Sharon Daniel is a media artist and innovator in the field of interactive documentary. She creates online artworks and multimedia installations that examine social, racial, and environmental injustice. For over twenty years her creative research has focused on documenting injustice in the criminal legal system in an effort to persuade people to rethink their assumptions about the criminal punishment system and the people it imprisons. The interactive documentaries and installations Daniel has co-authored with incarcerated people, homeless injection drug users, and victims and offenders participating in restorative justice mediation have been exhibited internationally in museums and festivals such as the Corcoran Museum, the San Jose Museum of Art, STUK Kunstencentrum, Artefact, Transmediale, the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, Ars Electronica, and the Lincoln Center Festival.

Daniel publishes her projects online to make them easily accessible for use in advocacy and education. Her work has been supported by the Daniel Langlois Foundation, a Rockefeller New Media Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship. She has been honored by the Webby Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and included in the “Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 100,” a list of “the creative minds that are asking questions and making the provocations that will shape the future of American culture.”