'Try to break as many (rules) as possible if you can. Not just for the sake of doing it but for the feeling of freedom that you get when you step a little bit out and kind of go, 'Whoa' '.
Laurie Anderson on Art, Rolling Stone interview.

Around the world, in many countries art schools of different disciplines have merged or are in the process of merging to form multidisciplinary art academies. It is self-evident to all artists that inner-institutional collaboration with other art forms is the currents challenge for all art disciplines.

Even the role of the art academy/institution as both a private and public space that serves both the production and reception of the arts and its position in the community that relates to it, is being redefined.

Public Art is marginalized from key arts organizations, art schools, critics and the general discourse on Contemporary art in Ireland.
Public Art research Project Steering Group to Government, 1999.

Contemporary visual artworks have so fully and consistently integrated sound in installation, film, video, sculpture, and computers that the question of what a sound program is doing in an art school has been replaced by where is your sound program, who is on the faculty, and how are they using sound technologies.

We have through electronic technology produced an extension to our brains to the world formally outside us. Marshall McLuhan

I'm fascinated by the interaction between traditional sculptural processes and new technologies...it's exhilarating. That's where a lot of energy comes from, never quite knowing if you can manage all the different elements; not knowing what you will finally arrive at; not knowing how it will sit, how people will engage with it. The complexity, together with the unpredictability of the process, is exciting.' Andrew Kearney, Degree External Assessor 2002-2004. 'Interview with Aoife Mac Namara, 'With Intent' catalogue/exhibition at the Limerick City Gallery, 2001.