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: Diversity in Digital Publishing Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Diversity in Digital Publishing Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Submission Deadline: November 15, 2020 Brown University invites applications for a one-year Diversity in Digital Publishing Postdoctoral Research Associate appointment. As a member of Brown’s Center for Digital Scholarship, based at the University Library, the postdoctoral fellow will work as part of a multi-skilled team of experts to… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – Method Acts Workshop
Method Acts is a series of virtual workshops focused on scholarly techniques for graduate students and emerging scholars in architectural history and adjacent fields. This series of three events will be a forum for discussing approaches to our work. Each 75-minute workshop format will consist of 3 presentations on selected methods, presented by invited doctoral… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP – Special Issue on the Material Image. Affordances as a New Approach to Visual Culture Studies
Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine Call for Essays – Issue 7: Special Issue on the Material Image. Affordances as a New Approach to Visual Culture Studies Essay Deadline: November 27, 2020 Issue Publication: scheduled for early March 2021 Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine, an online, biannual, and peer–reviewed online… Read more
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New Getty Research Collections Viewer Offers Digital Access to Vast Archives
Now online in its initial release, the Getty’s Research Collections Viewer offers a visual way to browse and search their archival collections. The Viewer aims to make it easier to see what they have in our research collections—rare primary source material such as artists’ papers, prints, and photographs—as well as contextual information such as related… Read more
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Job Opportunity: Postdoc and Doctoral Positions in Digital Art History
1 Postdoc and 2 Doctoral Positions in Digital Art History FNS Project: VISUAL CONTAGIONS Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2025 Application deadline: Sep 15, 2020 The project VISUAL CONTAGIONS (dir. Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel) funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the Chair for Digital Humanities at the University of… Read more
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DH Tuesday (after Labor Day Monday): Talk: Identifiable Individuals and Reality What Do We Describe and Why
Mark your calendar: “Identifiable Individuals and Reality: What Do We Describe and Why” Dr. Martin Doerr, from Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) A talk from the Center for Spatial Studies Fall 2020 series, Knowledge Representation and GeoHumanities Tuesday, September 17 | 11:00 am The virtual talk will argue “that only a smaller… Read more