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: Talk – “On Imaging Technologies and the Operational Realities They Give Rise to”
A. S. Aurora Hoel, “On Imaging Technologies and the Operational Realities They Give Rise to” Wednesday, July 19, 2023, 6:15 – 8:00 PM CEST / 9:15 – 11:00 AM PST Hybrid lecture, to view online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85659345839?pwd=UmFZYU0xN1NxMGJ1MjlQM054NXgvZz09. Meeting-ID: 856 5934 5839 | Password: 148258 This presentation investigates the notions of scale and scalability from an eco-operational perspective. My… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – “Virtual/Material: What Matters for Art History?” 2024 CIHA Conference (June 23-27, 2024/Lyon)
36th Congress of the Comité international d’histoire de l’art (CIHA) Centre de Congrès – Cité internationale, Lyon Session Paper Proposal Submission Deadline: September 15, 2023 Paper proposals are invited for the session “Virtual/Material: What Matters for Art History?” at next year’s CIHA conference in Lyon (23 – 27 June 2024). This session aims to promote… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – Panorama: Digital Dialogues
Submission Deadline: July 15, 2023 Digital Dialogues, which publishes reviews and reflections on the digital work impacting American art history, is accepting proposals for a 500-word informal piece about your serendipitous finds: the digital projects and resources that unexpectedly sparked your interest or impacted your work in American art history. Please submit your proposal at… Read more
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Explore Newly Digitized Images from the Library of Congress
The staff of the Prints & Photographs Division of the The Library of Congress continuously digitize objects and add the new images to the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. If you want to follow their progress, then now have a link to view the most recently digitized images. Note that this link shares both new… Read more
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OCEAN Webinar: Andy Warhol Fair Use Case
Andy Warhol Fair Use Case Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 12:00 pm EDT / 9:00 am PDT Click here to register The US Supreme Court released its opinion in a fair use case that pits the interests of artists against each other, with profound implications for transformative use. Join Open Copyright Education Advisory Network (OCEAN)… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – The Root of Things: Grounding the Digital Humanities in an Increasingly Groundless World
Call for Papers for the VRA Bulletin Fall/Winter 2024 Special Issue The Root of Things: Grounding the Digital Humanities in an Increasingly Groundless World Guest Editors: Apartheid Heritages Abstract Submission Due Date: August 15, 2023 This issue seeks to tackle how we, as digital humanists, archivists, librarians, and otherwise find solid ground to work from… Read more