The Red Dot takes its name from the small sticker that once marked slides in a physical archive, flagging them as worth a second look. We’re keeping that spirit alive here.
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.
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DH Monday: CFP – Dismantling the Patriarchal Canon through Digital Art History (CAA 2022 Virtual Session)
110th CAA Annual Conference, Virtual Session, “Dismantling the Patriarchal Canon: Foregrounding Women Artists and Patrons through Digital Art History” (Virtual live sessions, March 3-5, 2022) Submission Deadline: Thursday, September 16 The session chairs invite paper proposals for the CAA 2022 affiliated session of the Digital Art History Society, “Dismantling the Patriarchal Canon: Foregrounding Women Artists… Read more
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World Photography Day: 25 Emerging Architectural Photographers from Around the Globe
Written by Paula Pintos, via ArchDaily. Architectural photography has developed into its own art form, and it might be as important as the built work itself. We consume architecture not only physically and spatially in a building but also through photographs. A good image reportage work can give the viewer a feeling of the atmosphere,… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – ConCave Ph.D. Symposium 2022: Divergence in Architectural Research (April 7-8, 2022 / Georgia Tech | Atlanta, GA
Deadline for Abstract Submission: September 15, 2021 “Divergence in Architectural Research” is an international doctorate symposium organized by the ConCave Ph.D. Student Group in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Architecture. The Ph.D. Symposium seeks to create a platform for sharing current research in architecture, with invited scholars and other doctoral students from architecture… Read more
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DH Monday: A “Virtual Village” Mapping Where Artists, Publishers and Activists Lived
Explore “Virtual Village” — South of Union Square where Village Preservation, a New York preservation group, launches online mapping tool to champion former haunts of artists and activists. This is just one of the visual stories created with the platform Urban Archive, an app (for both web and iOS) that enhances collection engagement and digital… Read more
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Calisphere Soars Past Two Million Digital Primary Resource Items
Calisphere announced that it now provides access to over two million historical images, texts, recordings, and other primary resources from the state of California’s remarkable digital collections. Explore early maps of the world; photographs from historical newspapers; paintings reflecting periods of cultural significance; personal journals and diaries charting new frontiers; political posters calling for decades… Read more
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Speculative Annotation Invites Public to Interact with Digitized Collections at the LoC
Created by artist and 2021 Innovator in Residence Courtney McClellan, Speculative Annotation is an open-source dynamic web application and public art project. The app presents a unique mini collection of free-to-use items from the Library for students, teachers and learners to annotate through captions, drawings and other types of mark-making. As a special feature for… Read more