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: “Toward a More Inclusive Digital Art History”
Panorama, the journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, is pleased to announce the publication of its fall issue and the debut of its “Toward a More Inclusive Digital Art History” initiative, a joint project funded through a generous grant by the Terra Foundation for American Art and administered by Panorama, has made it… Read more
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New Research Guides at the Library of Congress: Artists’ Fine Prints
What do artists Emma Amos, Ugo da Carpi, Albrecht Dürer, Edgar Heap of Birds, Ester Hernandez, Blanche Lazzell, Roger Shimomura, and James McNeill Whistler have in common? They all created beautiful prints that are freely available for you to view and study in the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division collections. Our newly published… Read more
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DH Monday: VR Exhibition “Zonas de contacto: Art History in a Global Network?”
The exhibition “Zonas de contacto: Art History in a Global Network?” is open in the DAHJ Gallery in conjunction with the collaborative journal issue between H-ART and the DAHJ by the same title. A form of praxis, the VR exhibition expands the journals’ discussions into areas of artistic production. To access the VR exhibition environment,… Read more
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DH Monday: PSU Center for Virtual and Material Studies 2022-2024 Research Theme – Fabrication: Virtual and Material Approaches to Global Textiles
The Center for Virtual and Material Studies in the Department of Art History at Penn State announces its research theme for 2022-2024, Fabrication: Virtual and Material approaches to Global Textiles. From the beginning of the fall semester in 2022, and continuing until the spring of 2024, The center will host lectures, collaborative panels and workshops… Read more
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DH Monday: DAHJ Editions
DAHJ Editions is a new publication series with a wide ranging content of research projects, conferences, workshops, and other programs for scholars and artists within the field of digital art history. The first DAHJ Edition, “‘The Digital Image’ – a Transdisciplinary Research Cluster” (published October 15, 2021) is edited by Hubertus Kohle and Hubert Locher.… Read more
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DH Monday: 2022 Method Acts – Open Call for Doctoral Candidates and Emerging Scholars to Present on New and Reconsidered Methods
Deadline to submit: October 25, 2021, at 11:59 PM CDT The two workshops will take place online: *Friday, December 17, 2021, 1PM PST / 3 PM CST / 4PM EST *Friday January 21, 2022, 1PM PST / 3 PM CST / 4PM EST From the Open Call: Method Acts is a series of virtual workshops… Read more