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: Special Issue: Machine Vision in Context
photographies, Call for Papers: Special Issue – Machine Vision in Context: Politics and Practices of Computational SeeingAbstract Deadline: July 7, 2021Paper Deadline: May 1, 2022 This special issue will bring together interdisciplinary scholarship that engages critically with the evolving, recursive interrelations between machine vision and photography. his special issue will thus be concerned with examining… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP: Digital Methodologies for Research on Early Modern Privacy
Digital Methodologies for Research on Early Modern Privacy (1500-1800)A peer-reviewed collection of short research articles, edited by Sanne Maekelberg and Natália da Silva Perez.Center for Privacy Studies, University of CopenhagenSubmission Deadline: Oct 15, 2021 The present call for short research articles invites researchers to engage computational and digital methods to expand the scope of the… Read more
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Save the Date: 2021 LA Art Show (LA Convention Center / July 29 – August 1, 2021)
Join the 2021 LA Art Show when they kick off the live art season! This year’s show features 75 galleries from around the world, presenting an extraordinary selection of painting, sculpture, works on paper, installation, photography, design, video and performance in more than 180,000 square feet of exhibition space, as well as an outdoor area… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP: Shaping Geneologies: 1st International Conference on Late 19th and early 20th century Sculpture
Call for Papers: SCULPT2021 – Shaping Genealogies · 1st International Conference on Late 19th and Early 20th Century Sculpture (online / October 7-8, 2021)Submission Deadline: June 30, 2021 We have the pleasure of announcing the SCULPT2021- Shaping Genealogies –1st International Conference on Late 19th and early 20th century Sculpture. The conference is organized by CITAR in partnership with… Read more
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“Lost City”: Public Housing, Urban Renewal, and Community in New London, Connecticut
What you thought of urban renewal depended on what side of the street you saw it from. Connecticut College recently completed grant-funded research focused on the 1962-1975 Winthrop Urban Renewal Project in our host city. This collaborative student-faculty-staff project resulted in a digital public history resource that uses StoryMaps with ArcGIS to present a narrative… Read more
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DH Monday: SAHGB Annual History Workshop: Visual Representation in Architectural History – Methodologies Lightning Round
SAHGB Annual History Workshop: Lightning Round 2 – Visual Representation in Architectural History – Methodologies (online / Friday, May 21, 4:00 – 6:00 pm [BST / Time Zone Converter]) Building on the themes explored in SAHGB’s Annual History Workshop: Visual Representation in Architectural History, the 21st May lightning round session highlights alternative research methodologies. Selected… Read more