Boyle, Deirdre.

Deirdre Boyle is a video historian and media critic as well as a programmer, consultant and media preservation advocate. She received her Master's degree in Media Studies from Antioch College and currently is a senior core faculty member in the Graduate Media Studies Program at New School University. Boyle received the New School's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1998. She also received a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Moscow in 1992 and an Ace Award for Best Documentary Series on Cable TV in 1988. Boyle has remarkable expertise as a documentary historian, teacher and researcher. Additionally, Deirdre Boyle is an accomplished author. She is a frequent contributor to notable popular and scholarly video, film and television journals including Afterimage, ARTnews, Cineaste, The Independent, Journal of Film and Video, Television Quarterly, Wide Angle and The Village Voice. This archive represents Deirdre Boyle's research for her 1997 book Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited for which she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). In addition to this book, she has published two other books on video, Video Classics: A Guide to Video Art and Documentary Tape (1986) and Video Preservation: Ensuring the Future of the Past (1993). Finally, Boyle is an active organizer of video art and documentary exhibitions for museums, libraries, film festivals and universities throughout the world. Most notably, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Brussels Video Festival and the Hong Kong Arts Centre invited her to guest curate video art exhibitions. Boyle was and remains an important figure in the field of video, television and film through her work as a teacher, author and organizer. Her contribution to video arts, history and preservation is particularly significant. This archive represents a cross section of Boyle's interests and is an especially valuable resource for anyone interested in the development of the medium and technology of video.