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).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.

“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 NarrativesChapter 1. The Rosewood Heritage and 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 KenderdineChapter 10. A Museum of Deepfakes? Potentials and Pitfalls for Deep Learning TechnologiesJenny Kidd and Arran J. ReesAfterword