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


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... more »

Susana Ruiz

Susana Ruiz

Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media, Associate Provost, Cowell College

Film and Digital Media Department

Areas of expertise: Media Art, New Media, Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, Animation, Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Critical Practice, Social Documentation, Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments


Biography, Education and Training

I am an Associate Professor of Film + Digital Media at the University of California Santa Cruz with affiliations in the Digital Arts and New Media Program (DANM), the Art & Design: Games + Playable Media (AGPM), and the Social Documentation Program (SocDoc). I teach both undergraduate and graduate courses in media arts production, history, and theory. I advise students at the undergraduate, M.F.A., and Ph.D. levels. As a first-generation middle school, high school, and college graduate, I wa... more »

Karolina Karlic

Karolina Karlic

Associate Professor

Art Department

Areas of expertise: Art Photography/Photography as Critical Practice, Environmental Art, Social Documentation, Globalization, Labor and Social Movements, Climate Change, Natural History


Biography, Education and Training

Karolina Karlic is a visual artist and Associate Professor of Art at UC Santa Cruz working across photography, moving image, and documentary practices. Her research examines intersections of labor, industry, ecology, and the environmental and social impacts of globalization, with particular attention to how systems of production transform human lives, landscapes, and more-than-human environments. Her long-term project, Rubberlands, is an expansive photographic survey tracing the global systems ... more »

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