When we think of monuments, we usually refer to objects made of stone or bronze that embody the social memory of a nation or community and make it tangible in material objects. New digital technologies – virtual reality, augmented reality and artificial intelligence – lend commemorative practices an unexpected materiality and novel potential.This book offers a critical comparative overview of the various types of digital monuments and considers them as strategies of telepresence, from aesthetic as well as ethical and socio-political perspectives. Several paradigmatic case studies are analysed to show how the experience of externalised memory is being profoundly transformed in the age of algorithmic media.Innovative critical approach comparing digital technologies (VR, AR, AI) as commemorative strategiesTele-commemoration is contextualised within the human dialectics near/farAnalysis of how social memory is reshaped in the age of algorithmic media
