Pour un observatoire des dispositifs numériques de médiation du spectacle vivant

The MedNum project focuses on the digital devices and the theoritical issues that cross the cultural mediation field of the performing arts in the digital age. There are two operational objectives : on one hand, it is necessary to observe, analyze and assess mediation devices developed by cultural organizations, and on the other hand, to consider the setting of an observatory of the devices specific to the performing arts. Therefore, the project rests on a close partnership between cultural institutions and mediation professionnals. Through seminars, workshops and summer schools, MedNum seeks to question the discourses and the representations that inform the cultural mediation field when it comes to think of the role of the digital technologies in its practices. As a consequence, we need to (re)question the tensions specific to the cultural mediation field (for example, between vertical or descending logics and horizontal logics, between democratization and democracy, between mediation and participation, between quantitative and qualitative objectives, between mediation and communication, etc.) in the light not only of the society digitalization, but also through the emergence of new paradigms that affect the public cultural policies, such as taking into account the cultural rights or reconsideration of the cultural state involvement for the benefit of the privatization of the cultural consumption.