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contemporaneity-347	Rizzi, Francesco	Historical Presence and Immersive Technologies: Between Repair and Rewriting of Visual Memory	2025	4	.pdf	application/pdf	855	35	24	The notion of historical presence in visual studies has traditionally been constituted through a representational regime based on static media— textual, iconographic, photographic—designed to mediate the temporal distance between observer and event. This epistemological shift raises questions about the extent to which immersion constitutes an extension of historical presence rather than a hypermediated simulation of it.1 The emblematic case of digital reconstructions of destroyed archaeological sites, such as the 3D modeling of Palmyra, exemplifies the dialectic between the repair and rewriting of memory.2 Here, the notion of historical presence refers to how the past becomes experientially accessible in the present, through technologically mediated forms.	cache/contemporaneity-347.pdf	txt/contemporaneity-347.txt