Sharon Daniel is a media artist who produces interactive and participatory documentaries focused on issues of social, economic, environmental and criminal justice. She builds online archives and interfaces that make the stories of marginalized and disenfranchised communities available across social, cultural and economic boundaries. Daniel's work has been exhibited internationally as well as on the internet. Most recently, a solo exhibition titled “Convictions” at STUK Kunstcentrum, Belgium presented the body of new media documentary work she has produced over the last 14 years, addressing the troubled intersection of criminal and social justice. Each of the five works in CONVICTIONS examines various aspects of the criminal justice system through first hand testimony and evidence given by impacted individuals. Detailed descriptions and links to these works can be found at http://sharondaniel.net.

ARI Supported Project: Reasonable Doubt(s), will document the forms of official misconduct and legal abuse that lead to the wrongful convictions of black men and women—exposing the systemic ordinariness of racist arrests and prosecutions. A detailed analysis of the case of Tim Young, an innocent, Black, death row prisoner, will serve as a narrative through-line for an online, interactive documentary and immersive auditory and visual museum installation that will link the stories of Black exonerees and defendants in order to demonstrate how structural racism undermines the credibility of our criminal legal system.

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