Music, Media, Arts Education. A Pan-European Exchange of Views on Research, Praxis and Musical Education in the Digital Age

140 representatives from across the fields of research, music practice, education and business came together on November 17th and 18th for the online conference “Music, Media, Arts Education”, living in Germany, France, Poland (and further). What followed was an interdisciplinary and interprofessional exchange about music, digitisation and cultural education, discussing the potential and challenges of new technologies in this sector.

 

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17 novembre - 18 novembre 2020

Digitisation is now part of our everyday lives. It is no longer just to do with technology but also with our culture and cultural practices, including artistic music practice, which is a field that has become increasingly dependent on technical developments. Impulses and resources from current artistic and entrepreneurial digital music practice were discussed on 17 and 18 November 2020 in the online conference "Music, Media, Arts Education" with researchers from the BMBF-funding stream: "Digitisation in Arts and Cultural Education", as well as numerous other actors from music education, research and practice throughout Europe.

We successfully opened up a discursive space for interdisciplinary and international exchanges in this field, focusing especially on Poland, France and Germany. Topics discussed included the emancipatory potential of arts and cultural education, the aesthetic value of art and music production in the digital age, empowerment through technology, the question of how musicians and representatives of creative music technologies have adapted their practice, as well as looking in more detail at real-life applications and research using new technologies in music and cultural education.

Public sponsors: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM)

Conference report

Conference report

The conference report "Music, Media, Arts Education. A Pan-European Exchange of Views on Research, Practice and Musical Education in the Digital Age" summarises the results of the online European conference held in November 2020. The conference brought together researchers from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research's (BMBF) funding line "Digitisation in Arts and Cultural Education" with actors from music education, research and practice throughout Europe.