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 Art History: Methods, Practices, Epistemologies 3 (online / Oct. 12-13, 2021)
Submission Deadline: Jun 15, 2021Virtual Conference (University of Zagreb), Oct 12–13, 2021 The third edition of the conference “Digital Art History – Methods, Practices, Epistemologies,” aims at bringing together established and early career scholars, independent researchers, and professionals involved with the transdisciplinary digital research initiatives, to critically examine the most recent developments in the field… Read more
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DH Monday: SAHGB Annual History Workshop: Visual Representation in Architectural History – Media Lightning Round
SAHGB Annual History Workshop: Lightning Round 1 – Visual Representation in Architectural History – Media (online / Friday, May 7, 4:00 – 6:30 pm [BST / Time Zone Converter]) Building on the themes explored in SAHGB’s Annual History Workshop: Visual Representation in Architectural History, the 7th May lightning round session seeks to explore research presentation… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP: Art Innovation Journal
CFP: Art Innovation (Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2021)Deadline: June 1, 2021 The electronic scientific journal Art Innovation announces a call for papers for the first issue – 01/2021 (scheduled release July 2021). We accept academic manuscripts on art history spanning from the 1860s up to the present day, as well as essays, interviews, portfolios, and translations which… Read more
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Calisphere: A Repository of California Digital Collections
From Calisphere: Calisphere provides free access to more than 2,000 collections digitized and contributed by all ten campuses of the University of California and more than 300 cultural heritage organizations (libraries, archives, and museums and historial societies ) throughout the state. Each of these organizations has specific collection emphases, which may be informed by local… Read more
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DH Monday: The Quantification of Urban Space
The Quantification of Urban Space: an introduction We live in a world of numbers. Weight and length are measured before birth. Footsteps are tallied. Square footage is priced. Air temperatures are calculated. Ice melt is tabulated. From the most intimate aspects of our lives to the global scales of our planetary environment, our world and… Read more
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DH Monday: Black Digital Devotions: Ethno-Religious Transnationalism and Data Gathering in the Era of Pandemic Travel Restrictions
UCSB Center for Black Studies Research presents: Associate Professor Roberto Strongman“Black Digital Devotions: Ethno-Religious Transnationalism and Data Gathering in the Era of Pandemic Travel Restrictions”Tuesday, April 20, 2:00 PM This talk explores the creation of a virtual devotional space for the Black Christ of Portobelo that would enable an alternative continuation of the pilgrimages that… Read more