The Red Dot takes its name from the small sticker that once marked slides in a physical archive, flagging them as worth a second look. We’re keeping that spirit alive here.
At MIRL, we engage with art history, digital humanities, and material culture through hands-on research and archival projects. Guided by our core principles—critical engagement with visual and material culture, ethical stewardship of images and data, and innovative approaches to research and pedagogy—we work at the intersection of technology and the humanities. We are especially interested in how digital tools can expand the study of images, objects, and spaces.
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Carpentry @ UCSB: Introduction to Unix Shell
When: October 6, 3:00PM – 6:00PM Where: UCSB Library, Room 1312 The Unix Shell is a powerful command-line interface that allows you to control your computer more efficiently than a traditional graphical interface. This hands-on workshop will introduce fundamental skills, including navigating files and directories, manipulating data, and writing simple scripts. No prior experience is… Read more
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Carpentry @ UCSB: Data Carpentry Instructor Training
Upcoming online events on: October 19-22, December 1-4, December 7-10 Passionate about teaching? Become a Certified Carpentries Instructor! The Carpentries is an international organization that trains and supports volunteers to teach foundational coding and data science skills to researchers. Becoming a Certified Carpentries Instructor offers professional development by building valuable, evidence-based teaching skills. You’ll gain… Read more
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Carpentry @ UCSB Community Meeting
When: September 28, 9:30AM – 10:30AM Where: UCSB Library, Room 2324 (DREAM Lab) or Zoom We’re excited to invite you to our Fall Carpentry @ UCSB Community Meeting! We’ll get together over coffee to talk about teaching opportunities during the quarter, share community updates, and get to know fellow Instructors, Helpers, and Learners. How: This… Read more
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Archiving Resistance: Activating the Black Radical Tradition
UCSB receives scholars and activists from California and beyond to discuss archives as tools for liberation REGISTRATION OPEN How do we bring together a conversation about racism and misogyny at ‘home’, about Palestine, the DRC, and the recent rebellions of ‘the Cockroaches’, while recognizing our complicity or seeming powerlessness in confronting them? How may… Read more
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Luis J. Rodriguez Papers Now Open for Research
The Luis J. Rodriguez papers at UCSB Library’s Department of Special Research Collections are processed and open to researchers. The finding aid is live on the Online Archive of California. Rodriguez was born in El Paso in 1954 and grew up in Watts, the San Gabriel Valley, and East Los Angeles. He joined the 1968 East… Read more
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Stories from the Vault: Woman Grinding Corn
Woman Grinding Corn, ceramic, Western Mexico, 200 BCE, 200 CE, AD&A Museum, Santa Barbara, 2017.015.013 (photograph by Moises Guerrero Gallegos). Moises Guerrero Gallegos has published an essay on one of the AD&A Museum’s ceramic figurines, Woman Grinding Corn, in the new issue of Imagine: A Promise & McNair Scholars Undergraduate Journal. The piece, “Fragments of History: The… Read more