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 – Digital Culture & Society, 8, 1/2022: Coding Covid-19
Initial abstracts (max. 250 words) and a short biographical note (max. 100 words) due: March 15, 2022 Digital Culture & Society, Vol. 8, Issue 1/2022: Coding Covid-19: The Rise of the App-Society This special issue of Digital Culture & Society – edited by Julia Ramírez Blanco, Ramón Reichert, Francesco Spampinato – deals with the concept… Read more
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DH Monday: Novel Machine Learning Methods for Computing Cultural Heritage: An Interdisciplinary Approach
The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton invites you to join them on Tuesday, February 22 at 4:30 pm (EST) for an event with Benjamin Lee (University of Washington). Lee will share how his project, Newspaper Navigator, re-imagines how humanists, social scientists, and the public can navigate and analyze the visual content in millions of… Read more
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New Online Resource: The Duchamp Research Portal
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is pleased to announce that the Duchamp Research Portal is now live! It provides free access to more than 18,000 documents and artworks, comprising nearly 50,000 digitized images related to the work and life of Marcel Duchamp. The cross-cultural and multilingual portal is the outcome of a seven-year partnership between… Read more
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DH Monday: Digital Heritage Seminar: Image Processing (online/Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België)
The Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België (KBR) invites you to attend a scholarly series on digital cultural heritage: the KBR Digital Heritage Seminar, in cooperation with ULB-UGent-VUB-UCL. In this series from February to June 2022, they will virtually host three academic scholars in presenting their work on cultural heritage and specifically on image processing. “The devil… Read more
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Protest Preserved: Signs from D.C.’s Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence at the LoC
It was a year ago this week that the Black Lives Matter signs came down from the Lafayette Park fence where they had garnered national attention as a rallying point for protests for nearly a year. The park, across the street from the White House, had been fenced off to keep protesters at a distance.… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – 54th Annual Conference of the IVLA (hybrid / August 10-12 2022, University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
54th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association: Connecting & Sharing – Envisioning the Futures of Visual Literacy Important Dates: Abstract submission opens: 10 January 2022 Abstract submission deadline: 28 February 2022 Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2022 Conference dates: 10-12 August 2022 Conference Theme The past two years of ongoing restrictions caused… Read more