[2][3][4][5][6] Taylor was an annual visiting professor, Michigan State University from 1993 to 1999 where he created, designed and taught production courses in Great Britain and Mexico for the MSU Study Abroad program.

He founded and taught at the New York International Media Group, an instructional workshop devoted to small format videography and filmmaking, 1982–1986.

Episodes included: Paco Taibo's Mexico City, narrated by Edward James Olmos; Iain Sinclair's London; Carl Hiaasen: From Miami to Key West with music and narration by Warren Zevon and New York Underground, with Lucy Sante, Samuel R. Delany, David Rieff, and Fran Lebowitz.

The New Yorker said: "Taylor's understated direction, featuring simple images that prod Delany's recollections gently along, makes the film a lively and thoughtful look at a deeply lived-in life.

"[9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Jump Cut said that "Taylor's film illustrates Delany's life through a series of what Roland Barthes called biographemes (preferences, inflections, details to which the author might be distilled).