"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"--
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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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
Part I: Revealing Missing or Underrepresented Narratives
Chapter
1. The Rosewood Heritage and VR Project: Engaging Difficult
Histories with Digital Technologies
Edward González-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 Cant 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
Chapter
10. A Museum of Deepfakes? Potentials and Pitfalls for Deep Learning
Technologies
Jenny Kidd and Arran J. Rees
Afterword
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).
Alexandra Bounia is Professor of Museology at the University of the Aegean in Greece. Her research interests focus on the history, theory and management of collections and museums, museum ethics, museum sustainability, the role of museums in dealing with difficult and political issues.
Antigone Heraclidou is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Museum Lab of RISE (Research Centre on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies). Her research interests include Cyprus' colonial history, decolonisation, education and cultural heritage.
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