Overview

How can emerging technologies display, reveal and negotiate difficult, dissonant, negative or undesirable heritage? Emerging technologies in museums have the potential to reveal unheard or silenced stories, challenge preconceptions, encourage emotional responses, introduce the unexpected, and overall provide alternative experiences. By examining varied theoretical approaches and case studies, authors demonstrate how “awkward”, contested, and rarely discussed subjects and stories are treated – or can be potentially treated - in a museum setting with the use of the latest technology.

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Author:   Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert ,  Alexandra Bounia ,  Antigone Heraclidou
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781800733749

ISBN 10:   1800733747
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   14 January 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Introduction: Emerging Technologies, Museums and Difficult Heritage Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Alexandra Bounia and Antigone Heraclidou *This open access chapter is available thanks to the support of the CYENS Centre of Excellence. Part I: Revealing Missing or Underrepresented Narratives Chapter 1. The Rosewood Heritage & VR Project: Engaging Difficult Histories with Digital Technologies Edward Gonzalez-Tennant Chapter 2. Preserving Queer Voices Sharon Webb Chapter 3. Women's Metadata, Semantic Web, Ontologies and AI: Potentials in Critically Enriching Carl Sahlin's Industrial History Collection Anna Foka, Jenny Attemark and Fredrik Wahlberg Part II: Eliciting Affective and Empathetic Responses Chapter 4.New Realities for New Museum Experiences: Virtual and Augmented Realities for Difficult Heritage in Iraq Rozhen Kamal Mohammed-Amin Chapter 5. Dimensions in Testimony: Affect, Holograms and New Curatorial Challenges Elena Stylianou Chapter 6. 'We Can't Fix the Future If They don't Recognise Our Past': The Uses of Immersive Technologies for a Child Sexual Abuse Museum in Australia Lily Hibberd Chapter 7. Experiencing the Anthropocene: The Contested Heritage of Climate Breakdown Colin Sterling Part III: Creating a Sense of Presence, Immersion and Embodiment Chapter 8. Designing Interactions: On the Use of Digital Technologies in the Musealisation of Difficult Built Heritage Francesca Lanz and Elena Montanari Chapter 9. Dark Manoeuvres: Digitally Reincorporating the Marginalized Body in the Museum Lily Hibberd and Sarah Kenderdine *This open access chapter is available thanks to the support of the Labratory for Experimental Museology (eM+). Chapter 10. A Museum of Deepfakes? Potentials and Pitfalls for Deep Learning Technologies Jenny Kidd and Arran J. Rees Afterword Alexandra Bounia, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert and Antigone Heraclidou Index

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This is an excellent and important contribution to scholarship...(Nichols) has also done a fine job of explaining how a focus on duplicate exchange transforms our entire (mis)understanding of museums as places only for accumulation and preservation. * Ira Jacknis, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology

This is an excellent and important contribution to scholarship...(Nichols) has also done a fine job of explaining how a focus on duplicate exchange transforms our entire (mis)understanding of museums as places only for accumulation and preservation. Ira Jacknis, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Author Information

Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert is Associate Professor at the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts of the Cyprus University of Technology and the coordinator of its Visual Sociology and Museum Studies Lab. Since 2018, she is also the Museum Lab group leader at RISE (Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies).

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