Screen LibraryEmerging technologies and museums : mediating difficult heritage /
"How can emerging technologies display, reveal and negotiate difficult, dissonant, negative or undesirable heritage? Emerging technologies in museums have the potential to reveal unheard or silenced stories, challenge preconceptions, encourage emotional responses, introduce the unexpected, and...
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Berghahn,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"How can emerging technologies display, reveal and negotiate difficult, dissonant, negative or undesirable heritage? Emerging technologies in museums have the potential to reveal unheard or silenced stories, challenge preconceptions, encourage emotional responses, introduce the unexpected, and overall provide alternative experiences. By examining varied theoretical approaches and case studies, authors demonstrate how "awkward", contested, and rarely discussed subjects and stories are treated - or can be potentially treated - in a museum setting with the use of the latest technology"-- |
| Carrier Form: | x, 242 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781800733749 1800733747 |
| Index Number: | AM7 |
| CLC: | G26-39 |
| Call Number: | G26-39/E535 |
| Contents: | Revealing missing or underrepresented narratives -- The Rosewood Heritage and VR Project : engaging difficult histories with digital techniques / Edward González-Tennant -- Preserving queer voices / Sharon Webb -- Women's metadata, semantic web, ontologies and AI : potentials in critically enriching Carl Sahlin's industrial history collection / Anna Foka, Jenny Attemark and Frederik Wahlberg -- Eliciting affective and empathetic responses -- New realities for new museum experiences : virtual and augmented realities for difficult heritage in Iraq / Rozhen Kamal Mohammed-Amin -- Dimensions in testimony : affect, holograms and new curatorial challenges / Elena Stylianou -- "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 -- Experiencing the anthropocene : the contested heritage of climate breakdown / Colin Sterling -- Creating a sense of presence, immersion and embodiment -- Designing interactions : on the use of digital technologies in the musealisation of difficult built heritage / Francesca Lunz and Elena Montanari -- Dark manoeuvres : digitally reincorporating the marginalized body in the museum / Lily Hibberd and Sarah Kenderline -- A museum of deepfakes? Potentials and pitfalls for deep learning technologies / Jenny Kidd and Arran J. Rees. |