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[Commlist] New book: The Memorial Museum in the Digital Age

Mon Dec 12 16:15:14 GMT 2022





New at REFRAME Books: The Memorial Museum in the Digital Age

*Edited by Victoria Grace Walden*

Download/ read here: https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/the-memorial-museum-in-the-digital-age/ <https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/the-memorial-museum-in-the-digital-age/>

ISBN: 978-1-7395820-0-5 (PDF). Falmer: REFRAME Books, 2022.

REFRAME books is delighted to present the new open access, edited collection */The Memorial Museum in the Digital Age/*. Edited by Victoria Grace Walden, /The Memorial Museum in the Digital Age**/is the first comprehensive review of thinking and practice related to the effects and affects of the digital for memorial museums. These commemorative and educational spaces have traditionally contained object-heavy displays to stand-in for people, cultures and things that have been destroyed. What then happens when collected material evidence is presented to visitors/ users in digitalised forms – distanced from the material proximity offered at so-called ‘authentic sites’? Whilst memorial museums have often been celebrated for their commemorative and educative agendas, they are also political and tend to reiterate museological logics deeply embedded in problematic histories of arranging cultural objects and identities. Can digital technologies offer the potential to rearrange or resituate the memorial museum into activist spaces? Can going online disrupt the national memory politics that commonly characterise memorial museums, or does it enable more of the same? These are some of the questions that interest the contributors of this collection.

Whilst there is a growing number of publications interested in museums and the digital, the specificity of the memorial museum is understudied. Yet, it raises particular concerns relating to preservation, materiality, ethics, and absence that require careful consideration in relation to the digital. After a theoretical consideration of what the memorial museum is and could be in this ‘digital age’, this book offers a series of case studies written by curators, artists, and academics covering memorial museum examples in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Download the book here for free from the 12th December 2022: https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/the-memorial-museum-in-the-digital-age/ <https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/the-memorial-museum-in-the-digital-age/>

You can also follow REFRAME site Digital Holocaust Memory for related research and updates on the project: https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholocaustmemory/ <https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholocaustmemory/>

REFRAME is an open access academic digital publishing platform for the online practice and curation of internationally produced research and scholarship. Its subject specialisms—spanning media, film, music, critical theory, english literature, history, cultural studies and journalism — are also those of its facilitator, the School of Media, Arts and Humanities (MAH) at the University of Sussex, UK. https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/ <https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/>

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