Judith Doyle

Judith Doyle is an Artist and Associate Professor of Integrated Media at OCAD University in Toronto. She directs the Social Media and Collaboration Lab - SMAClab - established in 2012. The SMAClab develops gesture-based artworks, artistic tools and methods of networking installations. On 2015 sabbatical leave, Doyle is a Visiting Scholar at Massey College University of Toronto, and Artist in Residence at the Telus Toronto Innovation Centre. In 1978, Doyle co-founded Worldpool, an international artists' network using proto-Internet collaboration technologies including telefacsimile. Her documentary film subjects include Nixtayolero, an itinerate Nicaraguan theatre troupe; an account of traumatic spinal injury; and a portrait of her father's end of life, alongside urban foxes in his backyard. Screenings include Mannheim, TIFF and Brooklyn International Film Festival. While a Canwest Global Fellow at the Banff New Media Institute (2005) Doyle made 'Foxscape' in the Unreal game engine; her site-specific installation created for a computer lab was presented in Toronto's Nuit Blanche 2007 in the TestBed program curated by David McIntosh. 'Phantom House' (2010), Doyle's family home as architecture for memory and forgetting, exists in SecondLife and as an installation on multiple monitors. GestureCloud - her collaboration with Beijing artist Fei Jun - focuses on gesture as a surplus value of labour, documenting gesture in the factory, using classical motion capture and Kinect-based depth cameras. During her sabbatical Artist Residency at Memory Link (2012), Baycrest, Doyle collaborated with neuropsychologist Dr. Brian Richards and artists Robin Len, Emad Dabiri and Kang-Il Kim on compositing and animation that represents the experience of amnesia and memory loss, installed on crowd-sourced TVs in 'Pathfinding' (2013, sonics: Paul Geldart). In 2012 Doyle received the OCAD University Award for Distinguished Research and Creative Activity. With Dr. David McIntosh, Doyle collaborates on art exchange between Toronto, Argentina and Cuzco, Peru. Her art is exhibited internationally, recently at Art Beijing, ISEA 2013 (Sydney), ISEA 2014 (Dubai) and Nuit Blanche 2014 Toronto (curator: Earl Miller). SMAClab 2014-2015 Research Assistants include Nick Beirne, Chao Feng and James Rollo.