Daniel Schwarz’ works examine sociopolitical crises through the lens of digital media. His practice critically engages with aspects of control and power structures, state authority, and cartography under the connective tissue of surveillance and loss of privacy.

He exhibited and performed at the National Gallery of Canada; the 9th Berlin Biennale; the Nevada Museum of Art; the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMoCA); the Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York; the Goethe Institute, Washington DC; Sónar Festival, Barcelona; the 70th Venice Film Festival; Node – Forum for Digital Arts, Frankfurt; the Mapping Festival, Geneva; the WRO Biennale, Wroclaw; FILE – Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paolo; roBOt Festival; Fach & Asendorf Gallery, km temporaer, and the Mistake Room LA among many others.
Schwarz’ work has been featured in The New York Times, the Washington Post, ARTNET, The Boston Globe, Hyperallergic, VICE, The Creators Project, MPR, FastCo and Rolling Stone Magazine Italy.

Currently he is the Senior Privacy and Technology Strategist at the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), the NY affiliate of the ACLU. He graduated with a Master in Fine Arts from the Design Media Arts program at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2015. In 2011-12 he held an artist residency at Fabrica in Italy. Prior, he studied computer science and media (BSc) at the HdM Stuttgart, Germany, and the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil.