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        Symposium Abstract

      My practice is centering more and more on making information and communications technologies available (as empowering tools for self-representation) to disenfranchised, marginalized and low-income communities through "public art" collaborations with these communities. These collaborations are an attempt to give a public and political "voice" to these communities and provide them with access to and power within the "global" information and communication culture. I believe it is possible to help the technologically disenfranchised develop technological and political literacies through processes of self-representation. I am interested in redefining public art and public space through the distribution of information technologies of various types and the facilitation of communication within and between communities and individuals using networks and wireless technologies. I have descriptions online for two projects I am currently working on in collaboration with non-profit agencies - Need_X_Change: http://arts.ucsc.edu/sdaniel/need is currently in phase one - and the Women Prisoners' Oral History Project is in the proposal stage - http://arts.ucsc.edu/sdaniel/justice.