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: “The Art Historical Image in the Digital Age” Seminar (Florence / 26 June – 7 July 2023)
“The Art Historical Image in the Digital Age” is a two-week seminar that will take place at the Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut from 26 June – 7 July 2023. The seminar will familiarize participants with key concepts related to photography and imaging in art historical research, image data and its integral role in the… Read more
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DH Monday: Conference – The Digital Turn in Early Modern Japanese Studies (online / December 2-4, 2022)
The Digital Humanities occupy an ever-growing place in the research landscape of the twenty-first century. The past few years have seen rapid advancements in the development of digital technologies in the field of Japanese Studies. Scholars working on early modern Japan—be it literature, history, textual scholarship, art, or other areas of study—can avail themselves of several… Read more
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DH Monday: Workshop – “Progress and Innovative Practices in the Digital Humanities in Singapore and Abroad” (online / November 24-25)
Stefan Huebner invites you to the digital humanities workshop titled “Progress and Innovative Practices in the Digital Humanities in Singapore and Abroad” that he is hosting at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, on November 24-25, 2022. The event takes place on Zoom. Applicable across a wide variety of topics reaching from natural… Read more
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DH Monday: University of California GIS Week Conference (online / November 15-17, 2022)
The University of California GIS Week is an opportunity for you to learn and engage with experts and mapping projects across the UC system and beyond! Ask questions during the thematic mapping panels, engage with GIS industry professionals, and interact with posters presenters. The event will be hosted virtually through Zoom. All talks are free… Read more
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DH Monday: Styles Revisited: From Iconology to Digital Visual Studies (online/ October 17, 2022 – June 5, 2022)
In the framework of the project Visual Contagions on the global circulation of images, the 2022-2023 Artl@s international research seminar continues its conversation on the notion of “style”. To better understand this ubiquitous notion, the seminar will further the dialogue begun in 2021, between art history and recent computational approaches, between aesthetics and cognitive approaches,… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – Association for Art History Annual Conference (London, UK and online / April 12-14, 2023)
Association for Art History 2023 Annual Conference, 12-14 APRIL 2023,University College London Abstract Submission Deadline: November 4, 2022 Session: Digital Medievalism This session will discuss the benefits and advantages (or disadvantages) modern technology can bring to the field of medieval studies. Digital technologies have created new methodologies for the humanities. With the help of three-dimensional… Read more