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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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
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DH Monday: Caribbean Digital Scholarship Summer Institute (Coral Gables, FL / June 11-17, 2023)
Application deadline: January 31, 2023 The Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective invites applications for its inaugural Mellon Foundation-funded, week-long residential digital humanities institute, to be held at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, June 11-17, 2023. The Caribbean Digital Scholarship Summer Institute will be held annually for three summers and welcomes applications from all scholars… Read more
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DH Monday: Foundations & Applications of Humanities Analytics Course (virtual / January 17–May 11, 2023)
The Foundations & Applications of Humanities Analytics course is aimed at a broad range of humanities scholars. The course aims to empower scholars in the humanities by eliminating the “black box” of computational text analysis. Participants will gain a theoretical and practical understanding of text analysis methods, and will learn how to extract content and derive… Read more
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New Online Resource on the Berlin Kunstkammer
A Window on Nature and Art: The Virtual Research Environment of the Berlin Kunstkammer (Das Fenster zur Natur und Kunst: Forschungsumgebung zur Brandenburgisch-Preußischen Kunstkammer) is a “research environment” that provides digital access to the most important inventories, catalogs, and descriptions of this collection, including objects that have been reconstructed from a selection of sources. The… Read more
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DH Monday: Journal of Art Historiography No. 27 Supplement, December 22: Digital Humanities
The recently published Journal of Art Historiography Number 27 Supplement, December 22 is devoted to Digital Humanities documents guest edited by Andrew Hopkins (Università degli studi dell’Aquila). Alternate issues of this bi-annual publication are guest-edited by scholars specializing in a ‘subfield’ or particularly under-studied area of art history. Click here for a list of documents… Read more
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DH Monday: 2023 Library of Congress Innovator in Residence Rebuilds and Revisits Lost Communities
The Library of Congress has appointed Rhode Island artist, educator and community-focused researcher Jeffrey Yoo Warren as 2023 Innovator in Residence. With his project, Seeing Lost Enclaves: Relational Reconstructions of Erased Historic Neighborhoods of Color, Yoo Warren will use photographs, maps, film and audio recordings from Library collections to build an immersive digital 3D model… Read more