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: 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
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DH Monday: CFP – SJS, Special Issue: Big Visual Data as a New Form of Knowledge
Swiss Journal of Sociology (SJS) Special Issue: Big Visual Data as a New Form of Knowledge. Theoretical Approaches, Methodological Procedures and Empirical Analyses, with guest editor Sebastian W. Hoggenmüller. Proposal Submission Deadline: November 15, 2022. The proliferation of smartphones, image-based instant messaging services (e.g., Snapchat) and photo- or video-sharing platforms (e.g., YouTube, TikTok, Imgur, Instagram)… Read more
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OpenBibArt: A Century of Art Bibliography Now Online
OpenBibArt is a bibliographic database born out of a collaboration between the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the CNRS (Inist-CNRS). It unifies the contents of four related datasets, whose history is described below, into a single open search platform developed… Read more
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DH Monday: Open Call for Doctoral Students and Emerging Scholars to Present on New and Reconsidered Methods
Deadline to submit: October 24, 2022, at 11:59 PM CDT Method Acts is a series of virtual workshops focused on exploring methodological techniques for graduate students and emerging scholars in architectural history and adjacent fields. This series of three events, organized by the SAH Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC), will create a forum for discussing… Read more