ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the distinctive digital materialities arising from emerging technologies being adopted across curatorial, art, and heritage practices. Extending digital materialities into the affective and epistemic dimensions of digital objects, cultural deep fakes are expanding notions of objecthood and aura. This includes the capacity to produce embodied sensations and emotions for museum audiences. “New Materialities” traces the conceptual lineage of these novel entities from nineteenth-century mechanical reproduction to today's artful digital doppelgängers. Fabrications of machine intelligence, 3D printing, and robotics inspire unparalleled re-materializations for art, archaeology, and museographic installations, transforming the curation, reception, and interpretation of digital artefacts and places for memory organizations and their communities.
