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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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
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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