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 & Digital Projects – Rutgers Art Review: Volume 40
Deadline: September 17, 2023 Rutgers Art Review, a journal of graduate research in art history, hereby invites all current graduate students, as well as professionals who have completed their graduate degree within the past year, to submit papers and digital humanities projects for its 40th edition. Papers may address all topics, geographies and historical periods… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – “Enhancing Early Modern Visual Resources in the Digital Space”
Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, March 21–23, 2024, Chicago Session CFP: “Enhancing Early Modern Visual Resources in the Digital Space” Submission Deadline: August 4, 2023 This panel seeks to showcase digital humanities projects that enhance the accessibility, visibility, and tractability of resources designed to analyze visual and material culture of the Early… Read more
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DPLA Launches The Banned Book Club
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has launched The Banned Book Club to ensure that all readers have access to the books they want to read. The Banned Book Club makes e-book versions of banned books available to readers in locations across the United States where titles have been banned. The e-books will be available… Read more
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New Digital Resource: Florence Arquin Slide Collection
The Arquin Slide Project at Florida Atlantic University is pleased to announce the launch of the Florence Arquin Slide Collection, an online archive of photographs of Latin America taken in the mid-20th century. Florence Arquin was an artist, educator, scholar, and documentary photographer who was hired by the US state department to head the Kodachrome… Read more
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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