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: 2022-2023 Getty Research Institute Graduate Internship: Director’s Office, Research Projects and Programs (Digital Art History)
The Getty Research Institute (GRI) is dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts and their various histories through its expertise, active collecting program, public programs, institutional collaborations, exhibitions, publications, digital services, and residential scholars’ programs. Its Research Library and Special Collections of rare materials and digital resources serve an international community… Read more
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Google Arts & Culture Opens Free Virtual Exhibition About Brasília
After launching virtual exhibitions about Parma (Italy), Pittsburgh and Milwaukee (United States), and Lagos (Nigeria), the online platform Google Arts & Culture has opened the virtual exhibition Brasília: um Sonho Construído (Brasilia: A Dream Built), which presents an immersive tour of the Brazilian federal capital designed by Lúcio Costa. Curated by the National Museum of… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP: Translating Home: Views From the Diaspora
12th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium: “Translating Home: Views From the Diaspora” (online / April 22–23, 2022) Submission Deadline: January 23, 2022 Organized by the Rutgers University Art History Graduate Student Organization (AHGSO) The concept of home is unstable, bearing countless interpretations of physical and abstract places. Diasporic and transnational identities are particularly susceptible… Read more
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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