| Centre Name: | 
Centre for Artistic Research (CFAR) (https://cfar.research.utar.edu.my/) |
| Chairperson: | Professor. William Ray Langenbach |
| Description of Centre: | CFAR brings together a diverse group of post-graduates and scholars to form a vital laboratory for experimentation and innovation in Artistic Research to help train scholars and new postgraduates to work in the expanding economies of intellectually rigorous art production, critical art entrepreneurism, and art education.
The goal of CFAR is to, first, facilitate and empower its researcher members in their own research, second, to establish UTAR and the Faculty of Creative Industries as a nationally and internationally recognised site for Artistic Research, promoting the integration of artistic practice with other scholastic fields of the humanities, especially Art History, History of Design, and Cultural Studies. |
| Research area: | CFAR emphasises artistic practice as its primary activity. CFAR also develops research into literary and philosophical sources, forensic aesthetics, architecture and site-specific art on land and in the sea. The range of concerns is broad and deep.
Artistic Research promotes the integration of artistic practice with other scholastic fields of the Humanities, especially Art History, History of Design, and Cultural Studies. It opens possibilities for practicing artists and designers to continue their practice while enhancing it with historical and theoretical studies. It thereby dramatically expands practice into a broader spectrum of knowledge CFAR focuses on the areas that our members are currently researching or wish to research in the future. The membership provides the direction of the Centre. |
| No. | Name | Faculty | Member |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | William Ray Langenbach | FCI | Full Membership |
| 2 | Wang Chain Khiang | FCI | Full Membership |
| 3 | Tan Hwei Ping | FCI | Full Membership |
| 4 | Soh Wuu Shyong | FCI | Full Membership |
| 5 | Nai Vongsuthep A/L Wong Sowat | FCI | Full Membership |
| 6 | Joanne Lai Chia Yin | FCI | Full Membership |
| 7 | Hafez Bin Zainudin | FCI | Full Membership |
| 8 | Eugene Foo Shyang Eu | FCI | Full Membership |
| 9 | Liong Mei Yin | FCI | Full Membership |
| 10 | Carmen Nge Siew Mun | FCI | Full Membership |
| 11 | Loo Hong Chuang | FCI | Full Membership |
| 12 | Goh Kiang Kuan | FCI | Full Membership |