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SUMMARY:Registration
DESCRIPTION:Registration and morning refreshments in the Art School Atrium.
CATEGORIES:REFRESHMENTS & NETWORKING
LOCATION:Art School Entrance\, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts\, Mount Street\, Liverpool L1 9HF\, UK
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SUMMARY:Opening Remarks: Professor Sean McNamara\, LIPA Principal & CEO
DESCRIPTION:The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) is delighted to present Technology\, Innovation and the Future of the Creative Curriculum\, exploring how Artificial Intelligence and emerging technologies are reshaping creative higher education.\n\nLIPA Principal and CEO\, Prof Sean McNamara\, welcomes delegates to this academic conference.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:PLENARY
LOCATION:Paul McCartney Auditorium\, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts\, Mount Street\, Liverpool L1 9HF\, UK
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SUMMARY:Keynote Speaker: Steve Rotheram\, Mayor of Liverpool City Region
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CATEGORIES:PLENARY
LOCATION:Paul McCartney Auditorium\, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts\, Mount Street\, Liverpool L1 9HF\, UK
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SUMMARY:Keynote Panel: Technology\, Innovation and the Future of the Creative Curriculum
DESCRIPTION:Dr Veronica Skrimsjö&nbsp\;hosts this keynote panel discussion with Professor Sabine Jacques (Music Futures\, University of Liverpool)\, Kevin McManus (UNESCO City of Music\,Culture Liverpool) Anneliese Midgley MP (DCMS Select Committee)&nbsp\;and&nbsp\;Keith Mullin&nbsp\;(LIPA).\n\n\nThis panel brings together educators\, researchers\, practitioners and industry leaders from across interdisciplinary fields to examine the opportunities and challenges presented by AI within the creative curriculum.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;From generative technologies in music and performance to new approaches in assessment\, curriculum design and creative practice\, the panel will explore the future of learning\, technology\, innovation and artistic collaboration in higher education.\n
CATEGORIES:PLENARY
LOCATION:Paul McCartney Auditorium\, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts\, Mount Street\, Liverpool L1 9HF\, UK
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SUMMARY:Morning Break
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CATEGORIES:REFRESHMENTS & NETWORKING
LOCATION:Art School Atrium\, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts\, Mount St\, Liverpool L1 9HF\, UK
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SUMMARY:Mediator\, Shortcut\, or Collaborator? Students' Experiences with Generative AI in Music Production Learning
DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence is increasingly positioned as a transformative force in creative education\, yet empirical insight into how generative AI tools shape students' learning and creative processes remains limited. This study investigates how generative AI tools mediate learning among music teacher students\, with a focus on creative learning processes\, self-efficacy\, and music production competence.\n&nbsp\;\nThe study took place in an undergraduate music teacher education course introducing students to music production in Ableton Live. Participants (N = 8) were divided into an AI-supported group (n = 4) and a non-AI group (n = 4)\, receiving identical tuition. The AI group had access to an LLM chatbot of personal choice and the generative music tool Suno.com.\n&nbsp\;\nData sources included pre- and post-tests measuring self-efficacy and DAW competence\, alongside qualitative focus group interviews and student reflective notes. Quantitative findings revealed only modest differences between groups. The AI-supported group demonstrated relatively stable but limited development in both self-efficacy and competence\, while the non-AI group showed greater variability\, including both substantial gains and declines. Qualitative findings illuminate these patterns: AI-group students engaged in more structured\, guidance-dependent learning\, relying on generated suggestions and step-by-step assistance. Non-AI students more frequently engaged in exploratory\, trial-and-error processes. While AI tools enabled efficiency and rapid content generation\, they also introduced challenges related to interpretation\, integration\, and over-reliance.\n&nbsp\;\nIn both conditions\, human support from teacher and peers proved central to student motivation and engagement\, emphasising that meaningful AI integration does not diminish the need for relational pedagogical presence. This study contributes to discussions on AI-enhanced creative curricula by demonstrating that AI does not simply improve learning outcomes\, but reshapes how students learn\, create\, and understand their own competence.\n\n
CATEGORIES:AI & STUDENT LEARNING
LOCATION:Room 2.46\, Art School Entrance
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Shortcut: Designing Creative and Critical Student Practices with AI
DESCRIPTION:As artificial intelligence becomes embedded across creative industries\, media management and communications students are increasingly experimenting with AI tools that shape how they produce\, plan and critique digital content. This 30‑minute showcase demonstrates recent pedagogical approaches that leverage AI to enhance engagement and creativity in higher‑education learning environments. It highlights how generative AI—across text and analytics platforms—can accelerate marketing and communications workflows by enabling rapid ideation\, lowering technical barriers\, and opening new pathways for data‑driven\, multimodal campaign storytelling.\n\nThe session presents findings from classroom‑based practice exploring how students use AI to develop audience‑informed content. Live demonstrations illustrate how students engage with AI for tasks such as data‑driven communication strategies. Alongside these\, the session addresses tensions surrounding ethical usage\, LLM styles and critical judgement\, emphasising how over‑reliance on automated outputs can flatten creativity or lead to surface‑level work.\n\nA key contribution of this session is showing how structured pedagogical interventions—such as reflective project journals\, critical analysis\, and guided exploration of AI bias—can transform AI from a shortcut into a catalyst for deeper engagement. In AI‑mediated environments\, creativity becomes an act of directing\, curating\, and interrogating machine‑generated material rather than simply producing finished artefacts. The demonstration highlights practical classroom strategies that help students maintain ownership of their voice\, make intentional\, authentic creative decisions\, and develop critical AI literacy.\n\nUltimately\, this showcase argues that the most effective use of AI in media management and communications is not about the tools themselves\, but about designing learning experiences that encourage experimentation\, ethical awareness\, and active creative agency within an AI‑saturated landscape.
CATEGORIES:CREATIVE PRACTICE & AI
LOCATION:Room 2.45\, Art School Entrance
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SUMMARY:Learning to Walk with AI: Reframing AI in Higher Education
DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly embedded within higher education\, yet much of the discussion remains centred on detection\, prevention and concerns around academic misconduct. This session proposes a more balanced perspective by exploring AI as a practical educational tool rather than an automatic threat to academic integrity.\n\nDrawing on lived experience as a postgraduate student and examples from project-based and creative education\, the presentation considers how AI can support idea generation\, planning\, reflection\, accessibility and workflow management while maintaining critical thinking and human authorship.\n\nThe session will explore both opportunities and limitations of AI\, including concerns around reliability\, bias and overreliance\, before moving toward practical examples of responsible implementation.\n\nBuilding from previous work developed within Music Management\, the presentation will transition into a workshop element introducing how software and AI-assisted approaches can be incorporated into project-based work. Through discussion and examples\, participants will consider how technology can support creativity\, organisation and inclusion without replacing academic judgement.\n\nThe aim is not to argue that AI should replace education\, but to encourage a more informed and constructive conversation about how it can be used ethically and effectively within contemporary higher education.\n\n
CATEGORIES:AI & STUDENT LEARNING
LOCATION:Room 2.46\, Art School Entrance
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SUMMARY:Practice Into Practical Training: Technical Transferrable Skills and Implementation in the Music Business Classroom
DESCRIPTION:Within a rapidly changing industry\, and as we move into an era where we are thinking about new technology development\, evolving intellectual property\, and a changing consumer economy what skillsets are needed to best prepare future industry professionals for the world once they graduate?\n\nThe subject of music industry within the higher education environment is relatively new. While music technology and marketing degrees can be dated back to 1975 (Miami\, 2026) at the Frost School of Music\, the first record of a music business focused class was only introduced four years before in 1971. Following a suggestion from country music legend Roy Acuff\, Professor Robert E. Mulloy began teaching an "Introduction to Music Business" course at Belmont University in Nashville Tennessee (Belmont\, 2024). Since its foundations the study has expanded greatly. With the aim of courses focused around bridging the gap between creative artistry and commercial viability (BIMM\, 2010).\n\nWhile music business courses do have a proven success record of graduating industry professionals (Timewell\, 2024)\, there have been key subjects identified when it comes to areas of improvement. Industry Readiness and Employability\, Transferrable skills\, and course material relevancy sit at the forefront of these areas (Jones & Whitefoot\, 2024). These three areas all work intrinsically together\, as skills are developed from relevancy which than translate to employability.\n\nAcross HE reports from employer associations and higher education organizations have called on universities to make a more deliberate effort to cultivate the “key or core” skills essential for various forms of high-skilled employment. Furthermore\, nearly half of all jobs from creative&nbsp\;sectors (49.09%) are now asking for specific knowledge of software or technology. With over 40% also looking for business and attitude focused skills (Giles & Carey\, 2025).\n\nThrough this workshop we will go through a simulated lecture and project where we take on the usage of transferrable skills and industry relevance surrounding the usage of technologies\, ai\, and software that can better equip current practitioners with tools on how to approach these important transferrable skills in the classroom.
CATEGORIES:CREATIVE PRACTICE & AI
LOCATION:Room 2.45\, Art School Entrance
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SUMMARY:Lunch Break
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CATEGORIES:REFRESHMENTS & NETWORKING
LOCATION:Art School Atrium\, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts\, Mount St\, Liverpool L1 9HF\, UK
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SUMMARY:'Things We Never Say': The Effect of Generative AI Tools on Online Musicians
DESCRIPTION:Through the use of applications such as&nbsp\;Suno\, AI-generated musical composition has become an accessible\, and hotly debated\, possibility (Nugroho and Manggala\, 2024). Debates surrounding these generative tools commonly cover the environmental impact of AI use\, the moral and creative experience of the individual using the tool\, and the effect that these tools have on the music industries and livelihoods of current musicians. An important factor to consider\, especially regarding the latter point\, is how a current musician’s musical output may be used by these tools - whether or not this use is consensual.\n\nReflecting on my autoethnographic experience as an active YouTube musician\,&nbsp\;Things We Never Say&nbsp\;refers to an AI-generated album of remixes of my musical works sent to me anonymously\, alongside three generated album covers using my image without my permission. \n\nThe presentation seeks to analyse these files\, explore the personal response resulting from the files\, and place the experience within the wider context of seemingly uncontrollable AI-generated musical content. Through conducting these analyses\, the presentation seeks to provide a first-hand\, realistic insight into the consequences of non-consensual generative AI use\, and highlight the risks associated with the applications that make this possible.\n\n
CATEGORIES:AI & CREATIVE LIMITS
LOCATION:Room 2.46\, Art School Entrance
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SUMMARY:Limits of Gen AI
DESCRIPTION:Full details coming soon.
CATEGORIES:AI & CREATIVE LIMITS
LOCATION:Room 2.45\, Art School Entrance
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SUMMARY:Let's Think Again About Learning: 'AI isn’t a threat it’s an opportunity to raise standards and achievement'
DESCRIPTION:AI is only a threat to the existing orthodoxies of learning in higher education. This paper will suggest that we should interrogate what learning is in higher education and argue that there is an emergent paradigm shift that shouldn’t be resisted. It will argue that we should take a radical view of how learning can occur in higher education and the ways in which we organise the curriculum.\n\nThe history of technology in education is characterised by fear and the defence of traditional positions. We can see from the evidence of the recent past\, that cultural conservatism in universities hasn’t in the end been able to prevent change. Written exams\, essays\, lectures now exist alongside practical assessment\, online learning and digital resources. In the end all systems adapt to change and reconfigure. In recent history the university system has reconfigured and new technologies and modest changes to assessment strategies have been able to maintain the existing traditions of learning. However an opportunity has been missed. Are we to imagine there is an eternal and essential idea of higher learning which needs only periodically rebrand and adapt itself? Or is this merely reactive behaviour and not progressive? Should the vision be to redefine higher learning\, rather than preserve its existing and perhaps dated notions of learning and excellence?\n\nThe paper speculates about opportunity for change given the new context. It will consider how in the first instance we need to reveal the hidden orthodoxies of higher education and assess their validity. It will go on to look at alternative models of learning and consider what these might mean for the design of the curriculum (and in particular the creative curriculum) and propose that an opportunity has arisen to achieve new types of excellence.
CATEGORIES:AI & STUDENT LEARNING
LOCATION:Room 2.45\, Art School Entrance
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SUMMARY:AI-Driven Creative Processes in Sound Design Education: Opportunities and Emerging Challenges
DESCRIPTION:The rapid evolution of AI-assisted audio tools ranging from machine-learning noise reduction\nand stem separation to procedural sound generation and spatialisation has begun to reshape\nthe creative workflow for emerging sound practitioners. While these tools offer unprecedented\nspeed\, accessibility\, and creative possibilities\, their integration into sound design education\nremains inconsistent across institutions.\n\nThis paper explores how AI can be effectively embedded into higher-education creative audio\ncurricula\, drawing from practical case studies and workflow observations in film and game\nsound. I examine how tools such as voice-isolated dialogue repair\, AI-assisted Foley synthesis\,\ngenerative ambiences\, and automated mixing systems can enhance foundational learning\nrather than replace human creativity.\n\nThe study also considers challenges: ethical authorship\, over-reliance on automation\, access\ninequality\, and the risk of diminishing critical listening skills. Through a practitioner-focused lens\,\nthe paper proposes a balanced framework where AI functions as an augmentation of the\nstudent’s craft helping learners refine decision-making\, expand sonic imagination\, and\naccelerate iterative exploration.\n\nBy situating AI as a collaborative partner rather than a shortcut\, the paper argues for a\nfuture-ready pedagogy that empowers both educators and students in creative audio disciplines.
CATEGORIES:CREATIVE PRACTICE & AI
LOCATION:Room 2.46\, Art School Entrance
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Break
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CATEGORIES:REFRESHMENTS & NETWORKING
LOCATION:Art School Atrium\, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts\, Mount St\, Liverpool L1 9HF\, UK
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SUMMARY:Case Study: No Fan Left Unread - Developing Scalable Email Automation for Artist Fan Engagement
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CATEGORIES:PLENARY
LOCATION:Paul McCartney Auditorium\, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts\, Mount Street\, Liverpool L1 9HF\, UK
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SUMMARY:Closing Remarks
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CATEGORIES:PLENARY
LOCATION:Paul McCartney Auditorium\, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts\, Mount Street\, Liverpool L1 9HF\, UK
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SUMMARY:Networking Reception
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an end of conference drink and a chance to network and carrying on discussions from the day. There will also be the opportunity to visit the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts LIPA@30 exhibition.
CATEGORIES:REFRESHMENTS & NETWORKING
LOCATION:LIPA Bar\, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
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