July 2011
Beijing Residency 2
This time with Ken Leung and my daughter Kaelan DM to work at CAFA and also the brilliant Orange Lab in Beijing with Fei Jun in our long-term collaborative formation GestureCloud.
We developed a location-based motion capture system, test driving our kinect-based portable device in a Beijing car wash, and a tiny restaurant in an obscure small town near the Great Wall.
January 2011 - until forever
Artist Residency at Baycrest
From January 1 2011, I am in the ongoing position of Artist in Residence at Baycrest MemoryLink. In this remarkable project, I am working with Dr. Brian Richards (neurospychologist - far left in pix), user-participants (Robin Len, at the computer), and OCAD collaborators Emad Dabiri and Ken Leung to develop new media visualizations of the perceptual experiences associated with acquired brain injury and the resulting anterograde amnesia.
My work at Memory Link engages new media studio-based learning as we use in Integrated Media at OCADU, including collaboration, attention to perceptual experience and its representation, and a recombinant approach to media including compositing / remixing. It's an amazing opportunity to understand what loss of the ability to recall experiences and plans for the future is really like. Here's a PDF link to the text and still images from a recent presentation I gave about this work at the WORLDVIEWS International Conference on Media and Higher Education at TIFF / Bell Lightbox in Toronto. Here is a link to Robin's Media TV video clip MEDIA TV that I mention in the talk. Sadly, I haven't added the newest video files yet - these are coming soon!
I will present at an in-depth conference about the next phase of this work (with lots of video) at DURATIONS at OCADU in August 2011....
December 2010 - January 2011
GestureCloud in Residency in RMB City
December 4 2010 - January 29 2011 - Judith Doyle and Fei Jun collaborating as GestureCloud are included in a groundbreaking exhibition curated by Yan Wu. About the project, Yan Wu writes : "Manifesting inside Gendai space at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre and the on-line virtual world Second Life simultaneously, Residency in RMB City is a virtual residency programme intertwining with an actual exhibition, staged to experience, reflect, and agitate the contingencies and resistances around the thresholds of the virtual and the actual in response to the augmented reality our everyday inhabits.
Three proposals originally developed for Chinese artist Cao Fei's RMB City in Second Life are put forward by Toronto-based artist/architect, Adrian Blackwell; artist, Yam Lau; and the collaborative team GestureCloud: Judith Doyle and Fei Jun..." for more, visit the Gendai Gallery site. Also see the "Pick of the Week" feature review in Toronto's NOW Magazine.
July 2010
GestureCloud : Judith Doyle, Fei Jun, Ken Leung and Jim Ruxton in research residency at CAFA in Beijing
GestureCloud : gesture and interfaces for hybrid installations engaging virtual networks and physical sites in Toronto and Beijing. We document factory work using video, then perform these gestures for mocap, translating the data to animation files for SecondLife. The virtual world mediates between networked installations in Beijing and Toronto (see RMB City residency). GestureCloud is a collaborative art research project lead by Judith Doyle and Fei Jun, with research collaborators Ken Leung, Jim Ruxton and Ian Murray who leads the virtual studio from his base in Canada. Support for this project was provided by a grant from the Canada Council Media Arts program. For visuals and detailed documentation of the research residency, see gesturecloud
Sabbatical Project / 2011
art, design and assistive memory at Baycrest
From January to July, Judith is an Artist in Residence, working with neuropsychologist Dr. Brian Richards and Memory Link researchers at Baycrest, a hospital and research centre for memory and aging. Using iterative and user-participant art and design strategies, we develop assistive and collaborative memory structures including memory architectures and avatars in virtual conditions. One focus will be on creating social networks and resources for teen/twenties-age children of people with acquired brain injury. Judith's Artist Residency also includes participation in design and implementation of the Innovation Incubator Lab at Baycrest with OCADU.
For more information, see the feature article on Memory and Aging in the 21st century, "When Memory Fails" - a profile of Judith and Brian's collaboration in Baycrest Matters - Winter 2010.|
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March 2010
Phantom House in OCAD Project 31
The model of a Phantom House for HD video and digital frame sold for a record price at Canadian auction in the OCAD fundraiser Project 31.
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2010-2011
OCAD University / DFI / Social Media and Collaboration (SMAC) Lab
Judith Doyle is PI for the emerging Social Media and Collaboration (SMAC) Lab of the Digital Media Research + Innovation Institute (DMRII), part of the Digital Futures Initiative at OCADU. An interdisciplinary production pipeline and testbed for social media and collaboration structures, the SMAC Lab will be launched in 2011 as a dedicated studio lab facility for artists, designers, students and researchers who create social media and collaboration systems.
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December 2008
Visiting Artist Residency, Amauta Project, CENTRO BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS, Cusco, Peru
With Dr. David McIntosh, Doyle conducted a week-long workshop at the Amauta Media Art Centre in Cuzco Peru. The project focused on Memory and Forgetting in Virtual Conditions, with a live critique collaboration in the OCAD Campus on SecondLife.
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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.
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29 September 2007
Doyle's house project featured in Nuit Blanche
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
July 2007
Judith Doyle appointed Chair, Integrated Media Program, OCAD
Doyle assumed the Chair with enthusiasm for the history and possibilities at INTM. |
22 January 2007
Foxscape Thesis Defence
The defence at York University concluded 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.
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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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