ABSTRACT
The latest digital revolution in museums around the world is not technological but stems from the evolution of digital replicas from mere reproductions into sophisticated objects endowed with new materialities, stories, and cultural appreciation. These exceptional objects are transcending linear conventions in the form of museological assemblages that conjoin artful adaptations of computer vision, generative AI, and advanced imaging technologies with computational techniques of display and interpretation and participatory display platforms. This introduction outlines the premise and objectives of Deep Fakes: A Critical Lexicon for Digital Museology as it contends with the core questions associated with this latest revolution in memory institutions. It also provides some of the relevant theoretical and curatorial contexts that set the scene for this publication, as well as elaborating newly formulated concepts of the cultural deep fake and the cultural digital twin. Finally, readers are familiarized with the book's structure and background, alongside its intended audiences.
