Named after the small red sticker that once guided scholars through legacy 35mm slides, The Red Dot is here to help you navigate the ever-evolving landscape of visual and material research. While rooted in the University of California, Santa Barbara community, our posts are open to all.
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.
Here, we’ll share insights on Digital Art History and Architectural History, highlight new image and data resources, discuss copyright and ethical considerations, and spotlight events that shape our field.
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DH Monday: Recent Contributions and News – International Journal for Digital Art History (DAHJ)
DAHJ’s latest articles: Remember that articles are published on a rolling basis, so manuscripts may be submitted at any time and to any subject of Digital Art History. Submissions addressing the current call have priority. You may also submit articles on past topics (e.g. Debating DAH, Architecture and Digital Space etc.). Articles submitted on a… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – Symposium on the Use of Computer Vision for Art Historical Research (June 14-15, 2024 / Philadelphia, PA)
Application Submission Due Date: Monday, January 15, 2024 by 11:59 pm EST The Department of Art History and the College of Information Sciences and Technology at The Pennsylvania State University are pleased to announce an upcoming convening on the use of computer vision (CV) for art historical research. Structured as a symposium with a public… Read more
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DH Monday: The Art Museum in the Digital Age (Jan 15-19, 2024/online/Vienna)
The Belvedere Research Centre in Vienna is delighted to present the sixth edition of its conference series on the digital transformation of art museums. The international conference builds upon the previous event focusing on topics such as Metaverse, Web 3, and Artificial Intelligence. Unsurprisingly, however, the debate about the responsible use of AI in the… Read more
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DH Monday: Lecture Series: Material Worlds – The Virtual Salon at IMAREAL (online)
The lecture series “Material Worlds – The Virtual Salon at IMAREAL” presents and discusses topics related to the material culture of the Middle Ages and the early modern period in an online format. The three forthcoming papers deal with questions of production, choice of material and material significance of bronze doors from the 11th and… Read more
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DH Monday: Conference – Art within Reach (Dec 5-6 2023/ Prague & online)
International conference Art within Reach: Photomechanical Reproductions of Works of Art from Print to Digital, organized by the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. With the development of photomechanical printing techniques around 1900, the dissemination of visual information about art objects expanded on an unprecedented scale. For the first… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – ARLIS/NA DH panel Call for Speakers
ARLIS/NA 52nd Annual Conference: POP! Pittsburgh, PA / April 2-5, 2024 Abstract Submission Deadline: December 31, 2023 The ARLIS/NA Digital Humanities SIG invites those interested to submit papers for the panel, In Support of Digital Humanities, at the upcoming Annual Conference in Pittsburgh. It is becoming increasingly common for librarians and visual resources specialists to… Read more