Emerging 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 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. CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS INTRODUCTION Emerging Technologies, Museums and Difficult Heritage Part I REVEALING MISSING OR UNDERREPRESENTED NARRATIVES Chapter 1 THE ROSEWOOD HERITAGE & VR PROJECT Engaging Diffi cult Histories with Digital Technologies Chapter 2 PRESERVING QUEER VOICES Chapter 3 WOMEN’S METADATA, SEMANTIC WEB, ONTOLOGIES AND AI Potentials in Critically Enriching Carl Sahlin’s Industrial History Collection Part II ELICITING AFFECTIVE AND EMPATHETIC RESPONSES Chapter 4 NEW REALITIES FOR NEW MUSEUM EXPERIENCES Virtual and Augmented Realities for Difficult Heritage in Iraq Chapter 5 DIMENSIONS IN TESTIMONY Affect, Holograms and New Curatorial Challenges 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 Chapter 7 EXPERIENCING THE ANTHROPOCENE The Contested Heritage of Climate Breakdown Part III CREATING A SENSE OF PRESENCE, IMMERSION AND EMBODIMENT Chapter 8 DESIGNING INTERACTIONS O n the Use of Digital Technologies in the Musealisation of Difficult Built Heritage Chapter 9 DARK MANOEUVRES Digitally Reincorporating the Marginalised Body in the Museum Chapter 10 A MUSEUM OF DEEPFAKES? Potentials and Pitfalls for Deep Learning Technologies AFTERWORD INDEX "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"-- Provided by publisher