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Public Secrets

Interactive documentary featuring audio testimonials from women incarcerated in California.

Year 2007
Format
Website
Credits by Sharon Daniel
Design and Programming by Erik Loyer
Recognition
Official Honoree, Activism Category, 11th Annual Webby Awards Transmediale 2008

Public Secrets is a multi-vocal narrative that links individual testimony and public evidence, social theory and personal statements, in an effort to engage the public in a critical dialogue about crime and punishment and challenge the assumption that imprisonment provides a solution to social problems.  A collaboration with artist/scholar Sharon Daniel.

Video Traversal

A high quality recording of the project as a user might experience it.



Video Introduction

A brief introduction to the project created at the time of its original release.


Each section of the piece is introduced with a split screen which highlights the ways in which the space inside the prison shapes the space outside, and vice-versa.
Audio statements from incarcerated women are arranged thematically for access by the user.
Certain spaces allow the user to explore thematic connections to a single testimonial.
In this area, users can explore all the statements of a single person included in the work.