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: Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities (Venice, 11-15 Jul 22)
Application Deadline: April 30, 2022 (11.55 PM CET) Admission and scholarship final rankings information for registration: May 15, 2022 Deadline for acceptance and registration: May 31, 2022 The VeDPH Summer School aims at providing advanced and in-depth training to students and scholars in theories, technologies and methods applied to historical monuments, artifacts and texts in… Read more
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New Web Address for The Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance
The Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance (formerly http://www.census.de/) is a 76-year-old project concerned with the knowledge and interpretation of antiquities in the Renaissance era. Since 1996 it has been based at the Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as part of the Professorship of Early Modern… Read more
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DH Monday: The Dartmouth Digital History Initiative Shapiro Seminar at the MHS
The Dartmouth Digital History Initiative: Digital Humanities, Data Visualization and Oral History Archives Free, Virtual Event – hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society Thursday, April 28, 2022, 5:15PM – 6:30PM EDT Authors: Edward Miller and Bryan Winston, Dartmouth College Comment: Janneken Smucker, West Chester University The Dartmouth Digital History Initiative (DDHI) is an open-source digital… Read more
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DH Monday: Call for Public Humanities Syllabi
Submission Dates: 07 Apr – 31 Dec, 2022 In the spirit of making publicly engaged pedagogy, curriculum building, and course transformation an accessible activity for faculty and practitioners in the humanities, Humanities for All is seeking to create an open access collection of undergraduate and graduate-level public humanities syllabi. These syllabi might cover introductory topics such as… Read more
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Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie receives Guggenheim Foundation award
Professor Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie has received a Guggenheim Foundation award for a book project titled The Curator as Culture Broker: Representing Africa in Global Contemporary Art. The book uses historiographical, art historical and social network analysis to interrogate how African artists and artworks are represented in the discourse of global contemporary art. Read more
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DH Monday: CFP The Longue Duree of Cultural Heritage (Rome, 5-7 Dec 22)
Submission deadline: May 15, 2022 An interdisciplinary conference at the Norwegian Institute in Rome (University of Oslo), 5.-7. December 2022. In collaboration with the Heritage Experience Initiative (HEI), University of Oslo. Confirmed invited speakers include Thora Petursdottir (HEI/University of Oslo), David C. Harvey (Aarhus University), Birgit Meyer (University of Utrecht), Chiara Mannoni (Ca’ Foscari University… Read more