Sara Arribas Colmenar
@sararribas.bsky.social
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
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
Pinned
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...
At CNU, we have a new Virtual Reality Lab and today I had a meeting with the Associate Dean for seeing for the first time! My surprise was that on the screens he had ready an add about my Data String Art, so #DHMakes in a new space!
November 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
At CNU, we have a new Virtual Reality Lab and today I had a meeting with the Associate Dean for seeing for the first time! My surprise was that on the screens he had ready an add about my Data String Art, so #DHMakes in a new space!
This week in #DHMakes: once all my crosses are marked where the nodes should be, I keep Gephi open on the table as a guide. Beneath each cross I start writing the names of the people who shape the network of the different versions of Las golondrinas. #NailandNodes
November 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This week in #DHMakes: once all my crosses are marked where the nodes should be, I keep Gephi open on the table as a guide. Beneath each cross I start writing the names of the people who shape the network of the different versions of Las golondrinas. #NailandNodes
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I love that NYC has what amounts to a #DHmakes contest and exhibition! 🤩
This Data Through Design program looks really cool.
You can submit a proposal to make an art exhibition with data from NYC's open data portal. They give $900 stipends.
Proposals are due November 2.
datathroughdesign.com/2026
You can submit a proposal to make an art exhibition with data from NYC's open data portal. They give $900 stipends.
Proposals are due November 2.
datathroughdesign.com/2026
October 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I love that NYC has what amounts to a #DHmakes contest and exhibition! 🤩
This week I started working again on my new #DHMakes piece! Since several people asked how I scale the design onto the wood, here’s a look at my setup — laptop and projector on one side of the room, the wood panel on the other, all ready to begin!
October 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This week I started working again on my new #DHMakes piece! Since several people asked how I scale the design onto the wood, here’s a look at my setup — laptop and projector on one side of the room, the wood panel on the other, all ready to begin!
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2nd free zine=edited by @claudiaeberger.bsky.social: collects a variety of DHy critical making tutorials by the authors from @dhandlib.bsky.social's special issue (dhandlib.org/making-resea...) that they wrote as companion "here's research-making practice you can try" related to their journal essays
Play With Your Data
A zine associated with dh+lib's special issue on data physicalization. Contains patterns and tips for making data physicalizations. (8.5 x 5.5 - print as a booklet with binding/flip on the left or sho...
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October 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
2nd free zine=edited by @claudiaeberger.bsky.social: collects a variety of DHy critical making tutorials by the authors from @dhandlib.bsky.social's special issue (dhandlib.org/making-resea...) that they wrote as companion "here's research-making practice you can try" related to their journal essays
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These zines are both free to read/print/share! 1st is @claudiaeberger.bsky.social's, on Appalachian Trail history+use re:gender, race, land rights, datasci (eg how to ID proxy data when needed), & data physicalization/art accompanying their data quilt (scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/work/footpat...) +
October 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
These zines are both free to read/print/share! 1st is @claudiaeberger.bsky.social's, on Appalachian Trail history+use re:gender, race, land rights, datasci (eg how to ID proxy data when needed), & data physicalization/art accompanying their data quilt (scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/work/footpat...) +
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
October 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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
#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!
October 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
#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!
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
October 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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
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.
October 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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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. @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
September 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
. @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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. @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.
September 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
. @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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. @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.
September 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
. @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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. @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? +
September 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
. @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!
September 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
#DhMakes at the @scholarslab.bsky.social Academia without community is elitism!
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
September 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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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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.
September 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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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@sararribas.bsky.social in action! Impressively presenting without slides!
September 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
@sararribas.bsky.social in action! Impressively presenting without slides!
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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.
September 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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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. @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)
September 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
. @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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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!)
September 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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!)
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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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September 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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
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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...
September 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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...
Reposted by Sara Arribas Colmenar
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.
scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu
September 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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: