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Sara Arribas Colmenar

@sararribas.bsky.social

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Lecturer at Christopher Newport University Data Artist Digital Humanities and #DHMakes // Dance Studies // Spanish Literature// Edad de Plata // Social Network analysis PhD in Spanish and Visual studies at PSU Between Spain and USA

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Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · May 8

Super happy to announce that my methodological article about #SNA applied to historical dance and theater is out! Available here: revistas.uned.es/index.php/RH...

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 13d

#DHmakes Adding this to my list of things to embroider / knitting-machine / laser-cut.

John R'lyeh, where dead Cthulhu waits dreaming @johnryanwrites.bsky.social · 16d

*taps sign*

A sign saying "I'm not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it."

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 13d

. @sararribas.bsky.social: Gephi's 2D screen flattening the network viz=harder to see all the community connections (lines literally cover other lines). In person, ability to see physical threads connecting nails/nodes from the side is remarkable, not obscuring smaller networks of connections

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 13d

. @sararribas.bsky.social: physical research making work also let her recheck her digital methods; slow down & reconnect w/the historical people & info her dataset represented.

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 13d

. @sararribas.bsky.social: she's not saying the digital methods and Gephi aren't important or are less than these critical making methods—those gave her the tools to do this physical making, & to do further work w/Gephi too. It's a conversation between complimentary approaches.

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 13d

. @sararribas.bsky.social's String Data Art exhibit represents ~2 years of work, starting w/physical archival research; noticing patterns of social artistic relationships around a major Flamenco event in Spain in 1922. Towards public humanities, how to make sense of large amount of people+info? +

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Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 13d

#DhMakes at the @scholarslab.bsky.social Academia without community is elitism!

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Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 13d

I’m sure we will! Thanks for all the sharing and support! It really means a lot

Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 13d

I can ask around! Because it’s possible that one of my aunt knows about the pattern!

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Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 13d

Sadly no! I bought it in Spain because when I saw it I felt in love with it!

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Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 13d

However, I have found an amazing community with colleges like @walshbr.bsky.social, @quinnanya.me or @literaturegeek.bsky.social who remember me that we need to share each other work. We need to support each other and use Bluesky for connect between us! So I’m super proud for being part of #DhMakes

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Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 13d

As I explained to @literaturegeek.bsky.social, I was able to start to share my process here on Bluesky because I was feeling a nobody and inside of being nobody, I didn’t think someone would pay attention to my little Bluesky journal

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Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 13d

Moreover, I had the opportunity to remember that more than ever academia needs community and I made at the @scholarslab.bsky.social Without the support of the #DhMakes community, all the encouragement here, I couldn’t make it until the end of the piece

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Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 13d

You can’t imagine how happy I was today when I first saw my data art piece on a wall. I’m tremendously grateful to @scholarslab.bsky.social for all the work and support on this. Without them, this wouldn’t be possible! #DhMakes

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 13d

Discussing her use of materiality and why the analog format is important to her, @sararribas.bsky.social notes how she was a "bad" student - for her, the approach is a way to honor the differences in how she learns. Resonates so much with me and how I think about teaching.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 13d

@sararribas.bsky.social in action! Impressively presenting without slides!

Sara Arribas Colmenar presenting on her work in the Scholars’ Lab.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 13d

This isn't a pedagogical talk, but I'm struck by how much @sararribas.bsky.social's work on analog approaches to data resonates with minimalist approaches to DH teaching. Working carefully by hand forces you to rethink a lot of your assumptions of your digital methods.

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 13d

. @sararribas.bsky.social: this work is a love letter to this history, & a love letter doesn't have to be perfect. (Re:design iteration, wanting to redo work w/all you learn making it, finality of hammering in literal nails for string network: process & mistakes are scholarship as much as output)

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 13d

Livetweet thread from @sararribas.bsky.social excellent talk on how digital research methods & physical critical making can strengthen scholarship when iterating between both modes. (HT @shane.logoff.website for photos!)

Photo of Dr. Sara Arribas Colmenar presenting on her critical making data art project, which uses colorful string, nails, paint, and photographs to analyze historical social relationships around a major Flamenco event in early 29th-century Spain. Two audience members look on in interest.

Photo of Dr. Sara Arribas Colmenar taking audience questions about her critical making data art project, which uses colorful string, nails, paint, and photographs to analyze historical social relationships around a major Flamenco event in early 29th-century Spain. Two audience members look on in interest.

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Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 13d

Gracias a ti por enseñarme todo lo que sé sobre Social Network Analysis y toda tu generosidad académica!

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 13d

Shoutout from @sararribas.bsky.social to #DHmakes community (DHy/GLAM/knowledge-work folks+craft/making) for being a good model of supportive research community! More about what #DHmakes is & how to participate in this post by @claudiaeberger.bsky.social @quinnanya.me & me: tinyurl.com/whatisdhmakes

"What is #DHmakes?" blog post

What is #DHmakes? Amanda Wyatt Visconti, Claudia Berger, Quinn Dombrowski (crossposted on our various blogs, including Stanford Textile Makerspace, LiteratureGeek.com and ScholarsLab.org) This post i...

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 13d

We've installed @sararribas.bsky.social's prize-winning data art in our Common Room (VR Corner) 🎉 Can't make her research methods+making talk today? Come by any time to view & follow the QR code or this link to an online exhibit: uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/e...

Photo of the VR corner of the Scholars' Lab Common Room, showing a square rug, windows into an atrium, and a colorful research string art exhibit on the wall, with multiple panels sharing photos and historical background.

Photo of Sara Arribas Colmenar's data art installation, a colorful research string art exhibit on the wall, with multiple panels sharing photos and historical background and explaining how to read the colorful strings modeling artistic historical relationships

A closeup view of Sara Arribas Colmenar's data art installation, a colorful research string art exhibit, showing how the colorful strings model artistic historical relationships and are layered up close in ways a digital network graph might not show as well

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 13d

More info about @sararribas.bsky.social's work here!: More info: scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/work/string-... Huge thank you to Dr. Arribas Colmenar for working with us to share this fantastic model of how data, digital methods, & physical making can create effective public scholarship:

String Data Art: the Social Network Analysis of Concurso de Cante Jondo (1922)

String Data Art: the Social Network Analysis of Concurso de Cante Jondo (1922) is a data art installation created by our 2025-2026 Data Artist Sara Arribas Colmenar.

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 20d

"Nails & nodes: Making Digital Social Networks Analysis Tangible": @sararribas.bsky.social shares her prizewinning data art installation+talks combining digital research+analog art methods to study history re:early 20thc flamenco music in Spain. How data-driven analysis can move beyond the screen!

Scholars' Lab Artist & Methods Talk: Data Art Prize Winner Sara Arribas Colmenar

After fielding a robust pool of applicants in our inaugural year, we are thrilled to welcome the winner of our 2025-2026 Data Art Prize, Sara Arribas Colmenar, to the Scholars’...

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 20d

Next week's public talks: @sararribas.bsky.social on DH data art & social network analysis; @jenniferisasi.bsky.social & @craftytechwiz.bsky.social #ByteSizedPedagogy.
Workshops:
GIS=how to get lat/long coordinates onto a map;
makerspace=laser engrave yr metal water bottle, basic leathercrafting

Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · Aug 26

Our fall term events are, as always, free & open to the public! More events to come, including invited speakers; & our many coming makerspace workshops don't get announced right when term starts (to give students time to design them). Our upcoming events are always listed at scholarslab.org/event

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The Scholars’ Lab

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Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 27d

On Sept. 25 at 11 AM I will be at the @scholarslab.bsky.social presenting ¨Nails and Nodes: Making Digital Social Networks Analysis Tangible¨. Join me to discover how data-driven SNA can move off the screen into a string data art installation! Registration here cal.lib.virginia.edu/calendar/eve...

Scholars' Lab Artist & Methods Talk: Data Art Prize Winner Sara Arribas Colmenar

After fielding a robust pool of applicants in our inaugural year, we are thrilled to welcome our 2025-2026 Data Art Prize Finalist, Sara Arribas Colmenar, to the Scholars’ Lab....

cal.lib.virginia.edu

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