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 – 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
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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