Dr. Feargal Fitzpatrick is Head of the Department of Fine Art Media at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. His current research project 'The Politics of the Image: Ireland, Landscape and Nineteenth-Century Photography' presents a contemporary theoretical reading of a discontinuous field that, up to now, has been dealt with largely on an empirical or historical basis. The Media Department’s teaching and research priorities are in the fields of lens-based, digital and post-internet art.