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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Seminar Series in Digital and Public Humanities
The Seminar Series in Digital and Public Humanities is organized by the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice The seminars will be held online as virtual events. Link for zoom subscription: https://unive.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUofu-ppjwvGd3BlvJLj6WZIOmyQYDoOzuM 11 November 2020, h 17:00 Sarah May Swansea University Infrastructure, Skills, Voice: Digital Participation Beyond Access in Post-Industrial… Read more
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DH Monday: Photogrammetric Survey for the Recording and Documentation of Historic Buildings
Efstratios Stylianidis, Assoc. Professor, School of Spatial Planning and Development at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, has written a book, Photogrammetric Survey for the Recording and Documentation of Historic Buildings (Chambridge: Springer, 2020), that (from the publisher) “…provides state-of-the-art information on photogrammetry for cultural heritage, exploring the problems and presenting solutions that are applicable under… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – Matrix of Mobility: Networks of Objects and Exchange
“Matrix of Mobility: Networks of Objects and Exchange” Eighth Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium (March 4–5, 2021, Online) CFP Deadline: Monday, January 11, 2021, at 5 PM ET The Graduate Union of the Students of Art (GUStA) at the University of Toronto is pleased to present the Eighth Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium in cooperation… Read more
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DH Monday: Symposium: Technological Revolutions and Art History
Join the Frick Library’s Digital Art History Lab in a webinar series – “Technological Revolutions and Art History” – that explores the role technology has played in the development of the field of art history. Historically, science and the humanities were not considered two discrete disciplines: the separation of these two branches of knowledge developed… Read more
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DH Monday: Blackness, Immobility, & Visibility in Europe (1600-1800): A Timeline
Blackness, Immobility, & Visibility in Europe (1600-1800) is a crowdsourced timeline that “chronicles the representation and regulation of black bodies in Europe, circa 1600-1800. As a tool for research and teaching, it allows users to cross-reference artworks and historical events in spatial and visual relation to one another. For an introduction to the timeline, the… Read more
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Take a Virtual Ride Down Sunset Boulevard with Ed Ruscha
From The Art Newspaper Blog: Before Google Street View, there was Ed Ruscha. In 1966, the Los Angeles artist first drove along the Sunset Strip with a motorised camera mounted to the back of his truck, using it to photograph the entire street in a manner that uncannily predicted today’s online mapping technology. He compiled… Read more