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: CFP – (Non-)Digital Discourse Analytical Approaches (IIT Roorkee, India / February 20-26, 2023)
3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS Conference) & 3rd RC33 Regional Conference Asia: India, 20.‒26.02.2023, Onsite conference hosted by Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee, India) Session Call for Papers: “How Modality Matters? Learning from the Multiplicity of (Non-)Digital Discourse Analytical Approaches” Submission Deadline: July 15, 2022 Digital… Read more
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DH Monday: Digital Humanities in Architectural History – Mentoring Program Virtual Roundtable
“Digital Humanities in Architectural History,” is a free event to be held Tuesday, June 28, from 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM CDT / 12:00 – 1:30 PM EST / 9:00 – 10:30 AM PDT. This is a second collaborative project of SAH WiA AG and Carlton University | Art & Architectural History, and with SAH Archipedia, organized by Dr. Gül… Read more
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DH Monday: The Future of the Virtual Past (Cambridge/online, June 27, 2022)
The Future of the Virtual Past – New Directions and Shared Standards in the Reconstruction of the Medieval-Renaissance Built Environment Online (Zoom) /Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, University of Cambridge – 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (BST) / 2:00 am – 10:00 am (PDT) An international interdisciplinary conference organized by Donal Cooper (University of Cambridge) and… Read more
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DH Monday: 2022 LD4 Conference on Linked Data (July 11-15, 2022 / Zoom)
LD4 Conference on Linked Data: Linking Global Knowledge Co-Chairs Joe Cera, Jim Hahn, and Mary Seem are excited to announce that registration for the 2022 LD4 Conference is open! Join them virtually on July 11-15, 2022 to learn concrete ways that linked data benefits GLAM institutions and discover pathways to participation in linked data. The… Read more
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DH Monday: Researchers Train AI to Attribute Paintings Based on Detailed Brushstroke Analysis
Article by Benjamin Sutton (The Art Newspaper, published 4 January 2022) Art historians may have a new tool for settling the attribution of disputed paintings using artificial intelligence (AI) thanks to research by a cross-disciplinary team led by physicists at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The research, published in November in the journal Heritage… Read more
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DH Monday: Supporting Curatorial Work with Machine Learning
By Audrey Altman, March 30, 2022. Curatorial work with large archival collections is challenging. In order to find artifacts related to a chosen topic, curators have to sift through thousands – sometimes millions – of materials and determine which are truly relevant. Machine learning can help streamline curatorial workflows by analyzing complex datasets and making… Read more