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 – 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
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DH Monday: CFP – Round Table Session: The “More-Than-Human World” in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Visual and Material Culture
Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference 2024 (HNA): Britain and the Low Countries / Cambridge, UK, July 10–13, 2024 Submission Deadline: September 29, 2023 It has been almost thirty years since ecologist and philosopher David Abram coined the phrase “more-than-human world” to describe the endless enmeshment of the human and non-human (including plants, animals, and natural… Read more
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DH Monday: A Portrait of Tenochtitlan
A Portrait of Tenochtitlan is a reconstruction of the city as it was in 1518. The narrative that accompanies the images can be read in English, Español, and Nahuatlahtolli. “Mexico City is built on top of the ruins of Tenochtitlan. The temples were demolished and the stones were repurposed after the Spanish conquest. The lake has… Read more
