Emerging Technologies and Museums

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).

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Emerging Technologies, Museums and Difficult HeritageTheopisti 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 NarrativesChapter 1. The Rosewood Heritage & VR Project: Engaging Difficult Histories with Digital TechnologiesEdward González-TennantChapter 2. Preserving Queer VoicesSharon WebbChapter 3. Women’s Metadata, Semantic Web, Ontologies and AI: Potentials in Critically Enriching Carl Sahlin’s Industrial History CollectionAnna Foka, Jenny Attemark and Fredrik WahlbergPart II: Eliciting Affective and Empathetic ResponsesChapter 4.New Realities for New Museum Experiences: Virtual and Augmented Realities for Difficult Heritage in IraqRozhen Kamal Mohammed-AminChapter 5. Dimensions in Testimony: Affect, Holograms and New Curatorial ChallengesElena StylianouChapter 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 AustraliaLily HibberdChapter 7. Experiencing the Anthropocene: The Contested Heritage of Climate BreakdownColin SterlingPart III: Creating a Sense of Presence, Immersion and EmbodimentChapter 8. Designing Interactions: On the Use of Digital Technologies in the Musealisation of Difficult Built HeritageFrancesca Lanz and Elena MontanariChapter 9. Dark Manoeuvres: Digitally Reincorporating the Marginalized Body in the MuseumLily 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. ReesAfterwordAlexandra Bounia, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert and Antigone HeraclidouIndex

“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