Museums and Technologies of Presence

Maria Shehade is a Senior Research Associate at the Museum Lab of the CYENS Centre of Excellence and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Cyprus University of Technology, with an interest in museum studies, cultural heritage management and policy, and cultural diplomacy. She is the co-author of Greek Cultural Diplomacy: Current Approaches – Future Challenges (2021). Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert is a researcher and artist with an interest in museum studies, photography, visual sociology, and new technologies. She is an Associate Professor at the Cyprus University of Technology and the leader of the 'Museum Lab' at CYENS Centre of Excellence. She is the editor of Museums and Emerging Technologies: Mediating Difficult Heritage (2022) and the author of The Political Museum (2016).

Chapter 1 Presence, Museums and Immersive Technologies: An interdisciplinary exploration; Part I: Presence as Immersion, Embodiment, and Multisensory Experiences; Chapter 2 Simulated, Stimulated, and Emulated Presence in 3D Digital Museums; Chapter 3 Presence in immersive museum exhibitions: the role of agency, body-ownership and awareness; Chapter 4 Designing Cultural Experiences within Technosocial Systems; Chapter 5 Multisensory Visitor Engagement: an Analysis of Three Case Studies; Chapter 6 Reconfiguring the Viewer: Modes of Perception and Attention in Immersive Museum Experience; Part II: Affective Presence and Absence; Chapter 7 Affective Presence through 3D Printing: Some Considerations on Materiality, Temporality and Technological Modes of Production; Chapter 8 Technology and presence in a museum of trauma: Therapeutic effects of making danger real Chapter 9 Breathe: Bridging the personal and the planetary through augmented-reality experiences; Chapter 10 Museums and the Power of Absence: Agrippa (A Book of the Dead); Part III: Spatio-temporal Presence; Chapter 11 Digital sensory experiences in museums. Does space matter?; Chapter 12 Museological presence through deep mapping: the Atlas of Maritime Buddhism; Chapter 13 Interwoven Spaces with XR, AI and Robots: Merging Realities in Space and Time; Chapter 14 (Co)-Presence with the Past Using Emerging Technologies in Contemporary Art: Institutional Critique Re-envisioned