1. Read your peer’s description. Add something to it to make it clearer or maybe more interesting according to you, the reader. Think of a better or another title.
2. Think of an object. Think of a new name for this object revealing its other properties.
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Optional 1: Write a poem from the quotes of what you were reading and hearing in class. Write an explanation on the principle of your choice.
Option 2: Chose a text you want to appropriate. Write it. Explain its new meaning.
Natalia Fedorova is a new media artist, writer, literary scholar and translator. Natalia holds a PhD in literary theory from Herzen State University (St-Petersburg). Natalia is an author of publications on avant-garde poetry, kitetic poetry, concrete poetry, hyperfiction, literary text generators and video poetry, as well as a curator and creator of VIDEO.txt, video poetry festival in St- Petersburg.
Natalia is an author of hyperfiction piece with multiple endings «7», and an interactive novel «Madame Ebaressa and a Butterfly», co-written with Sergeij Kitov and a number of short prose fragments. In collaboration with Taras Mashtalir created a series of video poems («Snow Queen», «Just Do Not Not Do It», «In Your Voice», «Machine Poetry Manifesto»).
Currently Natalia is a Fulbright visiting scholar at Trope Tank, Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT working with Nick Montfort on translation of electronic literature.
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