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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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
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react/review has published Volume 6, with the theme “Imagining the Local.”
The co-managing editors of react/review, Taylor Van Doorne and Megan Sheard, are excited to announce the publication of Volume 6, “Imagining the Local.” Navigate to our website to view this latest volume. react/review: a responsive journal for art & architecture, is an annual peer-reviewed responsive journal dedicated to research by emerging scholars in art and architectural… Read more
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U.S. Copyright Office Announces Copyright Essentials: Copyright 101 Webinar (Wednesday, July 15, 2026 | 1:00 p.m. eastern time)
NewsNet 1089June 23, 2026 Wednesday, July 15, 2026 | 10:00am (PDT) / 1:00pm (EDT) The U.S. Copyright Office invites you to register to attend the upcoming online webinar, “Copyright Essentials: Copyright 101,” on Wednesday, July 15 at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. This event is the latest edition in our educational series designed to teach copyright… Read more
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International Journal for Digital Art History, Issue 11
This issue features new scholarship on digital methodologies, visual culture, archives, media histories, and interdisciplinary approaches to art historical research. New articles are published on a rolling basis for all of 2026. No. 11 (2026) Call for Submissions Manuscripts may be submitted at any time and be related to any DAHJ Category. Submissions addressing the… Read more