Permanent Seminar of the Research Group on Education, Music and Theater in the Community
7 July 2026, 16.00-17.30, Universidade de Aveiro, Anfiteatro João Branco
Free entrance, both online and in presence
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Music Education in Algorithmic Culture: Artificial Intelligence, Technological Mediations, Challenges, and Horizons
Júlio Colabardini | Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo
The dissemination of digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence has reconfigured the ways music is produced, circulated, consumed, taught, and learned in contemporary society. Algorithms and platforms constitute complex mediations that shape listening, condition cultural practices, and construct learning processes that operate in diffuse ways, yet have concrete effects on tastes, identities, learning, and autonomy.
In this context, the seminar proposes a reflection on the challenges posed to music education and to the training of teachers, musicians, and music researchers. It will discuss the impacts of generative AI on processes of musical creation, circulation, and teaching and learning, as well as issues such as platform governance, business models, and affordances, with a view to exploring pedagogical horizons oriented toward critical autonomy in algorithmic culture.
Júlio Colabardini holds a degree in Music and a PhD in Music from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and a Master’s degree in Education from the Federal University of São Carlos. He has released five albums and has published articles in academic journals and book chapters. He critically investigates how digital technologies and technological mediations reconfigure modes of musical creation, circulation, labour, and education in contemporary society. He is coordinator of Academia Arte de Toda Gente, of the National Arts Foundation (FUNARTE), in partnership with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He taught Music Education and Technologies at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and served as technology coordinator for the conferences of the Brazilian National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Music (ANPPOM).