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Judith Doyle is a visual artist, writer, performance artist and media artist who lives and works in Toronto.

Worldpool Judith Doyle was a founding director of Worldpool, an artist collective that was interested in proto-internet explorations. "Worldpool was an ad hoc group of artists interested in exploring new uses of technology, but from an artist's perspective, that met in Doyle's storefront office, Rumour Publications." Founding member Willoughby Sharp noted, "Bell was right about wire uniting the world, but he would have been surprised by the nonvocal applications of the network his vision inspired. Ma Bell's voice grade telephone lines are being used increasingly for a wide range of analog and digital transmission. Computers, facsimile, and slow-scan television (SSTV) are only three of the relatively new electronic systems currently enjoying intensified experimental development."

"Judith Doyle's film, Eye of the Mask, documents her travels with the Nicaraguan theatre group Nixtaylolero - "Dawn Star" - in the winter of 1983-84. Doyle was interested in seeing artists who were in positions of political power; but her main concern was for the idea of a social function for art, which she discovered already articulated in the work of Alan Bolt, playwright, dancer and director of Nixtayolera." It began with an invitation to Nicaragua by the Association of Sandinista Cultural Workers, along with 20 other Toronto artists.

In 1988, Judith made a 57-minute 16mm documentary film named Neguaguon: Lac La Croix, made with the co-operation of the Lac La Croix Ojibway Band. "'Neguaquan' translates from Ojibway as 'what we're asking,' and although what the Lac La Croix band were asking the government for seemed simple - a permanent exemption to allow them to support themselves on lakes that were originally their own - the government proved intractable." The movie helped the northwest Ontario band to win the right to operate boats on the lakes of Quietico Park. It premiered at the Toronto Festival of Festivals (now named Toronto International Film Festival).

Rate of Descent (1983) is a solo performance premiered at XXXXX, Western Front November 12, 1982, Theatre Centre on January 27,28, 1983, the SL Simpson Gallery on July 5, 1984, and the Powerplant on January 21, 1988.