Welcome to MIRL, a laboratory for research and learning in the History of Art & Architecture department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
We support innovative visual pedagogy and we research emergent, diverse digital technologies and methods in the fields of art and architecture.
As a site for collaboration, the lab is a space for faculty and students to investigate art objects and related materials for instruction and research purposes.
Launching Fall 2024.
The latest Red Dot posts
Written by Eduardo Souza, published on May 7, 2024 on archdaily.com. While we are still trying to understand the possibilities and limits of three-dimensional printing and additive manufacturing, a new term has emerged for our vocabulary. 4D printing is nothing more than a digital manufacturing technology -3D printing- which includes a new dimension: the temporal.… Read more
Written by Chris Michaels, published on April 1, 2024 on theartnewspaper.com. The 10-year anniversary of a once-controversial new form of digital art, and disruptor of the art market, NFTs (non-fungible tokens), falls on 2 May. In the lead-up to that anniversary, two important new publications combine to provide the first comprehensive history of a form… Read more
The “Material Migrations” lecture series centers issues of object mobility, transcultural dynamics, and notions of connectivity and resistance with case studies from the Middle Ages until today. Connected to the international collaborative research project “Material Migrations: Mamluk Metalwork across Afro-Eurasia”, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and directed by Gertrude Aba Mansah Eyifa-Dzidzienyo and Vera-Simone… Read more
More than one year ago, the U.S. Copyright Office launched a comprehensive initiative to examine the impact of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) on copyright law and policy. This blog post highlights the next steps of this ongoing study and summarizes a recent update to Congress from Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter. Over the coming months,… Read more
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2024 by 11:59 (EDT) / 8:59 (PDT) Editor’s Note: All Topics Welcome at All Times TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN welcomes all original research in technology, architecture, and design. Submissions may choose to address the focus area identified in this call for papers but are not required to do so. All… Read more
Open Copyright Education Advisory Net (OCEAN) webinarCopyright AI and TDMFriday, May 3 at 12:00 PM (EDT) / 9:00 AM (PDT) There is absolutely no doubt that research institutions and copyright law have entered the age of artificial intelligence! Please join OCEAN for a discussion that will tackle emerging copyright issues and the application of fair… Read more
Material / Image Research Lab (MIRL) 