. @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!

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.

@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!)

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

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.

I usually don’t post about this type of things, but tbh I have been struggling a little bit about my “weird” Spanish name lately. As I moved to a new place I have to start over and that means explaining that my last name has two words

After my experience with #DHMakes, I decided to start something that I called “Crafty Quizzes” for my Spanish via Cinema class. I prepared a zines template with power point with 6 questions about the movie of the week. Before starting to answer, they needed to fold the paper and play around

It was amazing ti visit the @scholarslab.bsky.social and get to know @literaturegeek.bsky.social, @walshbr.bsky.social and Dr Laura Miller! I will post soon the digital map of the piece so you can explore it and keep you updated about the dates for the free public talk! Super excited about it

This is my starting week in my new position, so I have been two days meeting after meeting. However, at @cnucaptains.bsky.social we are starting a Virtual reality lab inside of the Liberal Art building

We're so excited for @sararribas.bsky.social's data art + public talk (TBA)! More info is now on our work pages here: scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/work/string-...

#DHMakes Here the end of “String Data Art: The Social Network Analysis of Concurso de Cante Jondo (1922)” with two legend: one for the edges and another for the nodes. Hopefully a digital map of the piece would be ready for the exhibition at the @scholarslab.bsky.social

I have been fighting with StoryMapJS for a couple of days. I wanted to use StoryMapJS gigapixel for my #DHMakes. The idea is to upload a digital version that I already did with a photo session in the Media Center at @cnucaptains.bsky.social. The digitalized version would be the background of the map

Digital Duende 2025 is a project of Flamenco Arts International (FAI) in collaboration with Stanford's Flamenco Cardenal. Check out FAI here! www.flamencoartsinternational.org

We've extended the deadline for proposals to October 1, 2025. The symposium will be bilingual (English/Spanish) and hybrid (at Stanford/via Zoom). Please contact me or Sara with any questions! Esperamos sus propuestas 💃

I'm honored to be co-chairing #DigitalDuende2025 with the brilliant #DigitalHumanities superstar @sararribas.bsky.social! We invite proposals for academic papers, artist talks, & multimedia demos on the subject of digital approaches to flamenco research/performance. CFP: bit.ly/digitalduend...

I wrote a brief post about my queer letterpress block collecting & creating work, w/a photo gallery of some of what I've assembled: literaturegeek.com/queer-letter...

#DHMakes Here some cool information about the String Data Art proyect! Thanks to @scholarslab.bsky.social and specially @literaturegeek.bsky.social for sharing my work scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/work/string-...

I wasn´t sure about what kind of legend I wanted to create for the #DHMakes, so I played around with nails. I wanted a bilingual legend that mantain the esence of crafting the whole piece. I reallized that it hasn´t to be perfect, so here it´s an imporfect legend

#DigitalHumanities My college @taniaarabelle.bsky.social and I are co-chairs of the #DigitalDuente2025, a two-day bilingual (English and Spanish) and hybrid symposium that will explore the dynamic intersection of flamenco and technology. Here the call for proposal docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#DHMakes Today I went to the Media Center at @cnucaptains.bsky.social for taking some photos and scan my piece! In this way, I can create a Storymap explaining all the different parts and the components!

#DHMakes Now following my notes I’m going to create the physical legend in two smaller piece of wood. One for the edges and the other for the nodes + space for a QR code. Thanks to the @scholarslab.bsky.social I got extra materials for these legends and the whole piece! Super grateful and excited

#DHMakes After painting all the nodes, I place all the documentation and photos. I’m super happy to see it kind of finished

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Follow @taniaarabelle.bsky.social for critical flamenco studies and DH! Her work about race, gender and performance is absolutely fascinating

#DHMakes colors finished!

We're delighted to announce our 2025-2026 Data Art Prize scholar, Sara Arribas Colmenar! @sararribas.bsky.social's piece combines social network analysis & string visualization art to map the constellation of human relations & events from a pivotal moment in Flamenco arts+culture history:

Today for the #DHMAkes it’s time to pick the colors for the nails. In this case, I decided to use the colors I associated with the role of each individual in the Concurso de Cante Jondo (1922)‘a Network.

Previous week, I gave a small talk about María Lejárraga on the #DHLisbon25. Tbh, I was feeling quite overwhelmed, bc I couldn’t go in person, plus it was my first time at this conference. However, when the Q&A started, someone asked about my #DHMakes. I don’t know who u are, but you made my day.

After finishing with the moving, I went to see the sunset. I’m still processing this place is just 15 minutes from my new place

This is the first time an office sign has my name with a Dr. in front of. New beginnings!

I’ve been a little bit disconnected between the DHLisbon2025 and my moving. Once I have again my office settle in a couple of days, I’ll start painting the nodes for the #DHMakes! After it, photos and archive materials and it would be done!

Excited to announce that my work would be display at @scholarslab.bsky.social! Thanks for this amazing opportunity

Next up: Sara Arribas Colmenar on recovering María Lejárraga's forgotten legacy & the choreographic evolution of the Art Theatre trough social network analysis. Maria Lejárraga (1874-1974) was a feminist writer & dramatist associated with the Martínez Sierra Dance Company. #DH2025

AH! My first Editors' Choice 🥰