MIRL, the Material / Image Research Lab, is the research and teaching lab of the Department of History of Art & Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
We support innovative visual pedagogy, and we research emergent digital technologies and methods in art, art history, and architecture.
As a site for collaboration, the lab is a space for faculty and students across the UCSB campus to investigate art objects and related materials for instruction and research purposes.
The latest Red Dot posts
Kimia Shahi, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Southern California Thursday Nov. 12, 4:30pm, Arts 1332 An unprecedented number of Americans looked shoreward during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. What they saw, and how, was increasingly mediated by visual representations. From artists’ growing embrace of seascape and marine subjects to… Read more
A Discussion with Jackie Amézquita and UCSB Faculty November 2, 11am, AD&A Museum A roundtable discussion with Amézquita and UCSB faculty Omar Pimienta, Priscilla Ybarra, and Alicia Boswell, about Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailings of the Land/Soil) and Amézquita’s activation of the exhibit on Nov 1st. Discussion will take place within the exhibit at the AD&A Museum.… Read more
When: October 22, 9:00AM – 12:00PM Where: UCSB Library, Room 2509 This workshop covers the advantages and best practices of sharing, reusing, and analyzing qualitative data using open tools. Learners will explore secondary datasets from the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) and master QualCoder—an open-source qualitative data analysis program. Participants can expect to learn how to… Read more