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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Alexander Calder’s newly digitized archive now available
The Calder Foundation has amassed and organized an exhaustive archive on Alexander Calder and his work. The archive contains more than 26,000 historic photographs, dozens of films, and thousands of books, magazines, and press clippings, in addition to over 130,000 documents. The Foundation has registered in its archive more than 22,000 works made by Calder,… Read more
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DH Monday: By What Means: CFP ACADIA Special Issue of the IJAC
Special Issue: By What Means: the ACADIA Special Issue of the International Journal of Architectural Computing Paper Submission: March 15th 2021 Decision Notification: April 19th 2021 Revised Manuscripts: May 17th 2021 BY WHAT MEANS Sasha Costanza-Chock’s phrase “By Any Media Necessary” refers to the growing community of practitioners and researchers that are leveraging advanced media,… Read more
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Free to Use and Reuse Image Sets
The Library of Congress’s Free to Use and Reuse Sets features items from the Library’s digital collections that are free to use and reuse. The Library believes that this content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use. Each set of content… Read more
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DH Monday: The Close-up Cloud: Visualizing Details of Image Collections in Dynamic Overviews
Pauline Junginger, Dennis Ostendorf, Barbara Avila Vissirini, Anastasia Voloshina, Timo Hausmann, Sarah Kreiseler and Marian Dörk, “The Close-up Cloud: Visualizing Details of Image Collections in Dynamic Overviews,” International Journal for Digital Art History, vol 5 6.03 (2020_21) Abstract This paper introduces a visualization technique designed to uncover iconographic patterns prevalent within a collection while at… Read more
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DH Monday: The 7th Annual NYCDH Week
The 7th Annual NYCDH Week The 7th Annual NYCDH Week, February 8-12, 2021. This year’s format is fully online and will continue to do what it has done for the past six years: Bring together individuals across the region who are interested in digital humanities. At NYCDH Week, you can learn new techniques and skills,… Read more
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DH Monday: CFP: The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) Conference 2021
The Second Annual Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) Call for Proposals for ACH 2021 (online, July 22-23, 2021) CFP Information: https://ach.org/blog/2020/12/29/call-for-proposals-association-for-computers-and-the-humanities-2021/ Deadline for the CFP: February 1, 2021 In partnership with the University of Houston’s US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) program and University Libraries, Texas Southern University, Rice University, Texas A&M College Station,… Read more