judith doyle
Judith Doyle was born in Toronto in 1957. She received her BA (Honours, Creative Writing) at York University, Toronto in 1978. She was a founding member of Rumour Publications and Worldpool, an organization of artists exploring telecommunications technologies, including proto-networking, fax transmission and slow-scan video (1978-1981).
Judith Doyle's art practice includes film, video and new media works. She has directed two hour-long 16mm documentaries : Eye of the Mask : Theatre / Nicaragua (special citation, Mannheim Film Festival 1985) and Lac La Croix (1988); both have screened internationally, Doyle's feature film Wasaga (1994) still plays the late-night slots on Bravo TV. Her short film the last split second (1998) won the ‘Chameleon’ award for Best Documentary at the Brooklyn Film Festival, screening at the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum in New York. It recently showed on a TVO pilot hosted by the Ontario Arts Council.
Judith Doyle has written and published widely, and has 12 years combined experience on the Editorial Boards of Impulse and Fuse magazines. Her critical writing includes ‘Life & Life Support Systems : zines, nets and outlets by artists’ (Fuse cover, Vol 19 # 5 ’96). With David McIntosh, she co-edited the "Rewiring bodies, art and technology" issue of Fuse (Vol. 20 #5 ’97).
Judith Doyle has taught part-time at the Ontario College of Art and Design since 1986. Her courses there include ‘Film, Video and Social Change’, (Postcolonial, feminist and queer theory; Third Cinema); Publications : Print & Digital (project-driven environments for development and critique of print publications and web sites); and Integrated Media Fundamentals (Curriculum Leader, mandatory Foundation overview of film, video, audio, performance and digital art and ideas).
Over the last several years, Judith Doyle has been working on projects about ideas of nature, human/animal relations and urban foxes. These projects include animal movies: fox past (1999) and the CD Rom ‘fox : future’ (2001). Screenings for these projects include the Brooklyn Film Festival, Hot Docs / Toronto, Pleasure Dome’s ‘Blueprint for Moving Images in the 21st Century (Toronto), the Canadian Documentary Retrospective at the American Museum in Washington, the Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival and Cinemateque Ontario.
She is currently doing post-graduate work in the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at York University in Toronto, and creating digital media with her colleague Paul Elia at Reading Pictures.