Sara Arribas Colmenar

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

. @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

. @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.

. @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.

. @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? +

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

. @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)

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!)

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

"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...

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

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

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...

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:

"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!

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

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...

Join us 9/25 for DH scholar & data artist @sararribas.bsky.social discussing+debuting her new exhibit, using string art to visualize & analyze historical social networks around a pivotal Spanish flamenco event: cal.lib.virginia.edu/calendar/eve... Please do register—open to the public+refreshments.

How others Spanish speaker can identify me because how I pronounced my name. All of that was completely gone when I didn’t want to make that person felt bad about the situation. So I repeated my last name in the way the they were trying to teach me and felt like an idiot again

It was like losing how my grandpa was proud of his last name, like a family m How both of my parents are part of my identity. How sometimes my last name is the only clue to people to even consider that I’m from a Spanish speaking country, bc I’m really white

It might be silly. I know this person was trying their best to help, but I feel all the time that I need to adapt even my own name to fit in. Hearing the explanation and the person waiting for me to repeat was like loosing a part of my identity