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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Sunoikisis Digital Classics Online Digital Humanities Seminars
Geographical Information Systems, Thursday, February 9, 4:00PM – 5:30PM GMT / 8:00AM – 9:30AM PST, Online via YouTube This session introduces Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and illustrates how it can be used to explore spatial patterns in cultural heritage datasets. We begin with an overview of the basic building blocks of GIS, including raster and… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – DAHJ Issue #9: The Art Museum in the New Hybridity
Continued Call for Papers – International Journal for Digital Art History Issue #9, “The Art Museum in the New Hybridity,” explores the convergence of analog and digital media, focusing on the art museum in the new hybridity. If you are interested in submitting a manuscript, please review the DAHJ Call for Papers and Submission Guidelines.… Read more
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DH Monday: Workshop – Images in Social Media Research: Digital Tools & Methodological Challenges (online / February 10, 2023)
Online Workshop: February 10, 2023, 9.00-16.30 (CET) / 12:00am – 7:30am (PST) Registration Deadline: February 9, 2023 This one-day workshop aims to bring together image researchers from different disciplines. On a very hands-on level, we want to explore digital tools that might offer pragmatic solutions for researching images on the web. Furthermore, the academic (re)use… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – Histories of Media Art (Venice, 13-16 Sept 23)
Abstract Submission Deadline: Jan 30, 2023 Hosted by the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH), Università Ca’ Foscari Venice, Italy, the 10th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology – RE:SOURCE – will celebrate Media Art Histories and the role that its main agents have had in the multiple… Read more
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SoCal Museums Annual “Free-For-All” on February 5, 2023
Mark your calendars for Sunday, February 5, when Southern California museums from Long Beach to Santa Barbara will band together for their annual “Museums Free-For-All” Free Admission Day. The event will have over thirty museums—presenting art, cultural heritage, natural history, and science—opening their doors to visitors to explore their permanent collections (note that this offer… Read more
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The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy’s “Wright Virtual Visits” returns for 2023
Launched in April 2020 as a social media initiative highlighting Frank Lloyd Wright-designed public sites that were closed due to the pandemic, Wright Virtual Visits 2023 will begin a fourth iteration on February 9, 2023 with a visit to the D.D. Martin House. As sites have reopened to visitors, the format has adapted in order… Read more