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: CFP – Do we really need Digital Art History (DAH)? (Jan 26 – May 17, 2024/online)
2023-2024 Artl@s/Visual Contagions Lecture Series in Digital Art History, second semesterTheme: “Narrowing the Divide: A Dialogue between Art History and Digital Art History”Call for Papers: Do we really need Digital Art History?Submission Deadline: November 20, 2023 The field of Digital Art history (DAH) is currently experiencing a notable shift towards establishing its autonomy as a… Read more
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New Online Resource: The art collection of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture at the Louvre
The DFK Paris is pleased to present the database of the art collection of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. Based on the inventories of Nicolas Guérin (1715) and Antoine-Nicolas Dezallier d’Argenville (1781), the database lists 653 paintings, sculptures, prints, and plaster casts assembled by the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – The Art Museum in the Digital Age – 2024 (Jan 15-19, 2024/Vienna/online)
Conference: The Art Museum in the Digital Age – 2024 Location: The Belvedere, Vienna (online) Date: January 15–19, 2024 Submission Deadline: November 3, 2023 The Belvedere Research Center is pleased to announce the sixth iteration of its conference series on the digital transformation of art museums. The event will build on the success of our… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – Archaeology of Colour (Apr 17–18, 2024/online)
International Symposium on Polychromy Studies: Archaeology of Colour – The Production of polychromy in sculpture up to the 16th century Submission Deadline: December 15, 2023 This symposium, to be held online, is organized within the scope of the project Archaeology of Colour (PTDC/ART-OUT/5992/2020), a project dedicated to studying the polychromy of medieval and early modern… Read more
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DH Monday: Call for Participation – Provenance Loves Wiki 2024 (Jan 12-14, 2024/Berlin & online)
Application Deadline: October 15, 2023, 23:59 CET / 2:59 PM PDT The Wikiverse, with its suite of collaborative structures and applications, has great potential as an infrastructure for exploration in art history and museum/collection research. The possibility to build linked art and collection data, to visualise data and information, and to connect with a global… Read more
