Read more
In view of the ever-increasing use of interactive and emerging technologies in museum spaces,
Museums and Technologies of Presence rethinks the role of such technologies as potential facilitators of presence, and as vehicles for offering new, immersive, and embodied visitor experiences.
List of contents
Chapter 1
Presence, Museums and Immersive Technologies: An interdisciplinary exploration; Part I: Presence as Immersion, Embodiment, and Multisensory Experiences
Simulated, Stimulated, and Emulated Presence in 3D Digital Museums; Chapter 3
Presence in immersive museum exhibitions: the role of agency, body-ownership and awareness; Chapter 4
Designing Cultural Experiences within Technosocial Systems; Chapter 5
Multisensory Visitor Engagement: an Analysis of Three Case Studies; Chapter 6
Reconfiguring the Viewer: Modes of Perception and Attention in Immersive Museum Experience; Part II: Affective Presence and Absence
; Chapter 7
Affective Presence through 3D Printing: Some Considerations on Materiality, Temporality and Technological Modes of Production; Chapter 8
Technology and presence in a museum of trauma: Therapeutic effects of making danger real Chapter 9
Breathe: Bridging the personal and the planetary through augmented-reality experiences; Chapter 10
Museums and the Power of Absence: Agrippa (A Book of the Dead); Part III: Spatio-temporal Presence; Chapter 11
Digital sensory experiences in museums. Does space matter?Chapter 12
Museological presence through deep mapping: the Atlas of Maritime Buddhism; Chapter 13
Interwoven Spaces with XR, AI and Robots: Merging Realities in Space and Time; Chapter 14
(Co)-Presence with the Past Using Emerging Technologies in Contemporary Art: Institutional Critique Re-envisioned
About the author
Maria Shehade is a Senior Research Associate at the Museum Lab of the CYENS Centre of Excellence and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Cyprus University of Technology, with an interest in museum studies, cultural heritage management and policy, and cultural diplomacy. She is the co-author of
Greek Cultural Diplomacy: Current Approaches - Future Challenges (2021).
Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert is a researcher and artist with an interest in museum studies, photography, visual sociology, and new technologies. She is an Associate Professor at the Cyprus University of Technology and the leader of the 'Museum Lab' at CYENS Centre of Excellence. She is the editor of
Museums and Emerging Technologies: Mediating Difficult Heritage (2022) and the author of
The Political Museum (2016).
Summary
In view of the ever-increasing use of interactive and emerging technologies in museum spaces, Museums and Technologies of Presence rethinks the role of such technologies as potential facilitators of presence, and as vehicles for offering new, immersive, and embodied visitor experiences.
