The Creative Arts Research Institute

The Creative Arts Research Institute (CARI) is a diverse community of arts-engaged researchers. Our work is connected through artistic practices; social, cultural, and environmental justice; and sensing new opportunities for imagining, making and thinking in and through the arts.

Our expertise is grounded in music, performing arts, visual arts, design, animation, film, experimental practices, gaming, and theatre. Through collaboration and connection, we communicate our interdisciplinary research with other ways of knowing. Our work is articulated through practice and theory, doing and writing, experimentation and reflection.

We share this work in our communities of practice, cultural institutions, industry partners, and in a variety of creative and traditional publications.

Grappling with some of the most complex questions of our time, our artistic approaches offer new innovative solutions and creative pathways forward. CARI acknowledges the creative contributions of the First Nations people of the lands on which we work and commits to making space for many voices to be present in our artistic conversations.

Image credits (top & bottom): Performance art by Justene Williams (QCAD), P.L.A.C.E. by Vanessa Tomlinson (CARI), Farsh-e-Parandeh (Flying Carpet) by Leila Honari (GFS) performed at FilmHarmonic; KAM by Zeynep Akcay (GFS), watercolour projection by Kathryn Seaton (HDR-QCA), musicians Will Smith, Alexandra Gorton and Flora Wong (HDR-QCGU), T.H.E.M. by the Interactive Media Lab Team.

Creative Works

Discover creative research outputs from CARI members on the research-sharing platform Creative Works.

What we represent

CARI represents the collective voice of creative arts research at Griffith University, establishing opportunities for meaningful engagement with industry and communities, through local and international partnerships, towards a culture of excellence, rigour and risk-taking in arts-based research.

Our commitment

CARI acknowledge that the lands we work on are places of wisdom that have been sung, danced and listened to by First Nations people for thousands of years. We aim to nurture a diverse, inclusive and equitable  environment to build relationships, share work, transform practices and collaborate with our communities. CARI is committed to the ongoing development of cultural respect in our membership and in our activities.

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Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of this Country on which we live and work. We recognise their continuing connection to place and culture, and pay respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.