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: Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art Call for Submissions, Proposals, and Digital Projects
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2021 The Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art publishes peer-reviewed, open-access, original scholarship on Dutch, Flemish, German, and Franco-Flemish art and material culture from the medieval period through the eighteenth century. We welcome the submission of scholarly manuscripts across a wide range of approaches from authors at every career stage. JHNA… Read more
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Getty Research Portal’s New Overview and Tutorial Video Available
The Getty Research Portal has created an overview and YouTube tutorial video in response to this past year’s experiences with remote teaching and learning. The video, which is approximately 10 minutes long, provides a brief introduction to the Portal’s background and virtual holdings, and demonstrates how to use it. Institutions are encouraged to link to the video in order… Read more
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A New Way to Study Medieval Manuscript Fragments
The Library of Congress is collaborating with the international initiative Fragmentarium.ms to help pioneer digital fragmentology, piecing together long-ago manuscripts that were torn apart or had fallen into pieces over the centuries. Fragmentarium is building an international community around the ability to identify, search, compare, and collect data on medieval manuscript fragments. What does that… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP: Digital Culture & Society, No. 2 (2021): Networked Images in Surveillance Capital
Initial abstracts (max. 300 words) and a short biographical note (max. 100 words) Deadline: March 31, 2021 Invitation to Submit Full Paper: by April 19, 2021 Full Paper Deadline: August 1, 2021 Referee Decisions: by September 1, 2021 Final Paper Deadline: November 10, 2021 Edited by Olga Moskatova, Anna Polze and Ramón Reichert When submitting… Read more
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Marina will release ‘digital manifestation’ of The Abramovic Method on WeTransfer
Marina Abramovic’s quest for world domination continues apace with her latest venture—a partnership with WePresent, the editorial arm of the file-sharing platform WeTransfer. Later this year, Abramovic will unveil a digital manifestation of The Abramovic Method on the site. According to the artist the participatory performance is “the exploration of being present in both time… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – Urban Assemblage: The City as Architecture, Media, AI and Big Data
Call for Conference Papers: Urban Assemblage: The City as Architecture, Media, AI and Big Data (London / Virtual / Hatfield, UK, June 28-30, 2021) Abstract Submission Deadline: April 1, 2021 This conference is planned as a hybrid in-person and virtual event. The keynote will be held in London. In-person presentations will take place in the… Read more