Researcher Highlights
Collaborative Environments for Creative Arts Research

Collaborative Environments for Creative Arts Research (C^eCAR) is a newly launched research group within the Faculty of Education and Arts at The University of Newcastle.

C^eCAR brings together national and international researchers in the creative arts, humanities, sciences, health and social sciences with external collaborators in the community, industry, other universities and institutes.

C^eCAR Director, Professor Richard Vella, said C^eCAR provides an interface for artists outside the university to collaborate with researchers in the creative arts, sciences, social sciences, humanities and health.

"From an interdisciplinary perspective, expertise from diverse disciplines combined with the creative arts can produce new outputs and models of understanding in the science, technology and humanities disciplines. They can also generate exciting new art works based on this research, "Professor Vella said.

"Research in haptics, interactivity, digital environments, robotics, communication and cognition are just some examples of fields that can include creative arts research."

Two successful projects already undertaken by C^eCAR include:

• Supanova, a rich media peer review annotation software environment for the presentation and discussion of research in the creative arts.
• The Space Time Concerto competition featuring an internet-linked ensemble spanning five countries.

For more information visit CeCAR.