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).

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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 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 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