Meet ICDS7 Keynote: Pieter-Jan Maes

Pieter-Jan Maes is professor at IPEM, Ghent University, Belgium

Pieter-Jan Maes is professor in the field of systematic musicology, and coordinator of the research institute IPEM and the Art and Science Interaction Lab (ASIL, www.asil.ugent.be) within the University of Ghent.

The IPEM team's research concerns embodied and social interaction with music. Digital innovative technologies play a central role in this, both in terms of fundamental knowledge acquisition, as well as the development of new artistic-creative possibilities in terms of human experience and interaction with music. We focus especially on the possibilities of extended reality (XR), artificial intelligence (AI) and data networks.