21 November 2007 Now online : Long Crescent : House Transformer - Nuit Blanche 2007 web gallery Judith Doyle's site-specific installation for a computer lab navigates a virtual house on Second Life. The OCAD Virtual Communities class and "Memory Link" at the Baycrest Centre are creating avatars with memory assistance functions on Second Life. See the class blog.

29 September 2007 Doyle's house project will be featured in Nuit Blanche 2007 Judith Doyle's site-specific installation for a computer lab derives from her model of her parents' home as memory architecture, produced with the Unreal 2 game engine and Maya 3D graphics at the Banff New Media Institute. Installation development for a Second Life version is now underway with Jess Brouse - game design / programming - InterAccess Media Arts Centre with consultation from Ian Murray. - senior media artist and designer/builder of Art Metropole's sim on Odyssey Island, Second Life. Art Met is providing the online real estate for Doyle's house. David McIntosh curates the Nuit Blanche line-up of six projects for OCAD's "table top" (architect : Will Alsop). Nuit Blanche begins at dusk September 29 and continues until dawn the next day - the city will be filled with art and over a million spectators. Short project description : A site-specific installation for a computer lab... Long Crescent : House Transformer will lockstep the monitors/workstations in a computer lab to create a surrounding view resembling the portal windows of a cruise ship. Out of these faux windows, we view a house interior. A hard-to-turn 'trackball' will steer us through the house. samples of this project : Banff stills of the 3D game engine house quicktime of a 3D test cinematic walkthrough

1 July 2007 Judith Doyle appointed Chair, Integrated Media Program, OCAD A 3-year term beginning July 1st 2007, Doyle assumed the Chair with enthusiasm for the history and possibilities ahead at INTM.

22 January 2007 Foxscape Thesis Defence Judith Doyle successfully defended her thesis at York University, concluding years of research and creative development. The online media art with textual substrate was developed with input from Craig Harwood (beautiful interface design) and Paul Elia (Doyle's longtime collaborator whose drawings and flash animations appear throughout). External examiner Dr. Cornelius Borck writes in his examiner's notes " Foxscape simply is an immensely impressive piece. Doyle manages to integrate an astonishing number of animations, stills and texts into an interface that is suprisingly easy to navigate.... an almost exemplary instantiation of interdisciplinary studies - and multimedia realization..." link to foxscape online thesis

2006 -> ongoing International Attention for The Memory Project In fall 2006, Judith Doyle and OCAD President Sara Diamond presented at the Creative Futures conference in Oulu, Finland. Also in 2006, Judith Doyle presented in Beijing, China at TASIE - the 2nd International Exhibition and Symposium of Art and Science. In 2007, Doyle presented at the Mobile Nation conference at OCAD in Toronto, and for the Baycrest Psychology Rounds, including a round-table with clinical practicioners, graduate students and researchers from Baycrest and OCAD.. The focus of Doyle's paper is research undertaken in the context of the OCAD Virtual Communities course, headed by Judith Doyle and Martha Ladly. Students completed a series of prototypes for memory and orientation devices for amnesia, contributing to groundbreaking research by Dr. Ron Baecker (U of T), Dr. Brian Richards of Memory Link at Toronto's Baycrest Centre, and U of T computer science researcher Mike Wu. Click here for more background

08/01/05 Ontario Arts Council : Grant to Media Artists: Mid-Career/Established - Awarded for the production of 36 Long (foxscape), the announcement was nicely timed, immediately following the completion of Judith Doyle's fellowship at Banff.

07/28/05 CanWest Global Fellowship Award Judith Doyle was awarded with the CanWest Global Fellowship Award and Residency for 2005. Doyle, along with her team completed a fully rendered 3D environment prototype of the foxscape project. Click here for more.

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