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: Conference – Reanimating Human-Machine Interaction: Reflecting on Interdisciplinary Methods (Antwerp, 6 May 23)
An intensive full day interdisciplinary symposium that brings together 3 international academic experts and a host of delegates for a discussion that intends to bridge the gap between dominant discourses in arts and humanities and creative computational practices. The goal is to foreground mixed and open methods and hybrid toolkits rooted in between the disciplines… Read more
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DH Monday: A Digital Tool Allows Users to Investigate Spatial Equity across New York City’s Communities
by Maria-Cristina Florian The Transportation Alternatives and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have initiated a new digital tool, Spatial Equity NYC, to help users understand how space is distributed and restricted across the neighborhoods of New York City. The tool asses the use of streets, sidewalks, and public spaces, as they are key factors that… Read more
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DH Monday: Webinar – The Montias Database: Exploring 17th-Century Dutch Domestic Interiors Digitally
Tuesday, March 21, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. EDT / 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Live via Zoom Join the Frick Art Reference Library for lunchtime talks spotlighting how the data in The Montias Database of 17th-Century Dutch Art Inventories can be used digitally by art historians to glean new insights. About the Speakers: Weixuan Li, Post-Doctoral… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – The Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS) Call for Proposals 2023
ILiADS 2023, Davidson College in North Carolina, held in person July 23-28, 2023. Call for Proposals Deadline: March 27, 2023 ILiADS offers a week-long intensive environment for collaborative project teams composed of some mix of researchers, librarians, technologists, and students to build upon established digital pedagogy or scholarship projects and/or launch new ones. To help… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – Visual Science of Art Conference (University of Cyprus, Nicosia / Aug 24-26, 2023)
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2023 The Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC) 2023 invites all people who connect visual perception and the arts (e.g. empirical, experimental, philosophical, phenomenological, computational approaches) and is an ideal venue to debate and collaborate on all topics associated with the perception and evaluation of artworks. You may submit only one… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – Umanistica Digitale: Dossier on Digital Art History
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2023 The dossier on “Digital Art History” of Umanistica Digitale collects contributions on the study of methods, approaches, debates and experiments that developed over the last two decades in the field of Digital Art History, particularly along two lines of research that appear dominant today. On the one hand, scholarly studies… Read more