The Red Dot takes its name from the small sticker that once marked slides in a physical archive, flagging them as worth a second look. We’re keeping that spirit alive here.
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.
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Kodak stops making Kodachrome film
Eastman Kodak’s Blog 1000words posted an announcement today that they will “retire” Kodachrome slide film. Additional information can be found here. For those who love slide photography, or are old enough to have memories of family vacation slide shows (embarrassing or otherwise), this is a sad end of an era. To put a bit of… Read more
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Magic Lantern show at the Hammer tonight
If you’re in Los Angeles tonight, don’t miss The American Magic Lantern Theater‘s show at the UCLA Hammer Museum, 7pm. The show, inspired by the Hammer exhibition The Darker Side of Light, is a “Victorian era Magic-Lantern show, replete with flying ghosts, macabre goblins, and a petrifying rendition of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven. Using… Read more
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ARTstor, Archivision and CDL deliver a payload!
With some end of the year money available, the California Digital Library has licensed three huge segments of the vendor Archivision‘s fantastic images of architecture and public art for all UC campuses. The Archivision Base Collection has 16,370 images “representing major Greek, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th & 19th Century and Modern sites”. Archivision Module… Read more
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Congratulations to our graduates!
Three of our wonderful VRC workers have graduated this year – Una, Shelby and John. Good luck to all of you, and stay in touch!! Read more
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Now that’s artistic devotion
Here’s a HubPage that shows examples of a love of art on a completely other level (even if some of the facts are incorrect): Tattoos of works of art. If you think this is a great idea but balk at the permanence of it, you could try something like these instead… Read more
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Banksy in Bristol — or on BBC
If you find yourself in England this summer, check out the new Banksy exhibition at Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery. The show, “Banksy Versus Bristol Museum”, runs through 31 August and features the elusive artist’s wry take on traditional art interspersed throughout the museum (the installation was performed under tight security and reportedly in 36… Read more