Emerging Technologies and Museums: Mediating Difficult Heritage

ISBN 10: 1800733747 ISBN 13: 9781800733749

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2022

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert is Professor in the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts at the Cyprus University of Technology and co‑leader of the ITICA/Museum Lab at the CYENS Centre of Excellence. Her research and artistic interests focus on museums, photography and technology.

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 Fellow at the Centre for Geopolitics, Peace and Security at the UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Her research interests include Cyprus’ colonial history, decolonisation, peace education and cultural heritage.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800733747
• ISBN 13: 9781800733749
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 274
• Editor: Stylianou-Lambert Theopisti, Bounia Alexandra, Heraclidou Antigone