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: Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud: Expert Researchers Share Their Outcomes
Earlier this year, LC Labs worked with three research fellows in digital history, digital art history, and software librarianship on individual computational research projects. Computational research applies computing processes like algorithms to traditional research topics, such as the study of history. For example, digital history researchers often use computational methods to uncover relationships between historic materials,… Read more
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DH Monday: Toward a More Inclusive Digital Art History: A Roundtable and a second CFP
Roundtable: April 30, 10:00 – 11:00 (PDT) Proposals due: April 30, 2022 Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art are proud to present the second installment of their collaborative Digital Art History Symposia, part of Panorama’s Terra-sponsored initiative “Toward a More Inclusive Digital Art History.”… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – Sixteenth Century Society Annual Conference (October 27-30, 2022 / Minneapolis, MN)
Proposal Submission Deadline: Monday, April 11, 2022 The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) invites proposals for individual presentations and complete panels for its 2022 annual conference. Under the presidency of Susannah Monta (University of Notre Dame), the conference will take place from October 27-30, 2022 at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, Minnesota. The 2022 annual… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – SECAC 2022 (Baltimore, MD / October 26-29, 2022)
SECAC 2022 in Baltimore, October 26 – 29, 2022 First Call for Papers for SECAC 2022: February 15-March 17 This year, they will present some sessions from the cancelled 2021 conference, so the calls will be in rounds. In this first round, there is a Call for Papers to add to 2021 sessions moving forward.… Read more
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DH Monday: International Summer School on Art Markets (Antwerp, 11-15 Jul 22)
Application Deadline: April 1, 2022 Following in the success of the first Art Markets Summer School held in Lyon in June 2019, this unique research, training and networking experience will take place again in 2022. Participants with an academic or professional interest in the mechanics of the art market will join European and American specialists… Read more
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The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Resources at the Library of Congress
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is the latest violent development in a long and turbulent history in the land of the steppes, and the Library has international resources on the region that go back for hundreds of years. You can learn a lot here, from one of the first maps that used the name “Ukraine”… Read more