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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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Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 18h

I went to the amazing @scholarslab.bsky.social and they have a lot of cool stuff like zines! I took my favorites with me and I have now a #DHMakes space in my office

Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 3d

#DHMakes just in case you want to see the material closer. I’m using this side as the back, because it’s not in good shape and I will paint the other!

Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 3d

Since it's recycled material, you can see that the nails aren't going in properly. So I'm trying to glue them or find other solutions, but it isn't working today. #DHMakes

Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 3d

Today at #NailsandNodes, I decided it would be best to start by putting some hangers on the back. Last time was the last time, and I didn't put them on at the end because they damaged the piece. #DHMakes

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Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 5d

I really wanted to do the SNA of Teatro de Arte and their hybrid pieces, but I would need a bigger wood! Quite sad, but here we go again with #DhMakes and a new chapter of #NailsandNodes. Ready?

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Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 5d

I’m thinking maybe add on the sides the hand program of the different versions and play around with the small space I have this time

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Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 5d

After a while thinking, I decided I’m going to start the new #DHMakes piece. As I only have a smaller “wood” (still not sure exactly what is this), I would do a smaller SNA of different versions of Las Golondrinas, a zarzuela piece by Maria Lejárraga and the composer José María Usandizaga.

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 21d

#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 · 24d

*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 · 21d

. @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 · 21d

. @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 · 21d

. @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 · 21d

. @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 · 21d

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

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Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 21d

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

Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 21d

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 · 21d

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 · 21d

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 · 21d

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 · 21d

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 · 21d

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 · 21d

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 · 21d

@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 · 21d

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 · 21d

. @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 · 21d

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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