Natalia Fedorova, PhD
Fields of Interest
Digital and Science Art
Digital Performance
Language Art
Education
October 2008
PhD in Literary Theory Herzen State Pedagogical University, St Petersburg, Russia
Chair of Modern Russian Literature, Philological Department
Hypertextual Forms and Functioning of Their Units in Russian Literature of the 10s of XXth century – 10s of the XXIst century
July 2004
MA in European Literature, Herzen State Pedagogical University, St Petersburg
Chair of European Literature, Philological Department
Hyperfiction as a New Literary Form
Vladimir Nabokov ”Pale Fire”, Julio Cortazar “Rayuela”, Italo Calvino “Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore …”, M.Joyce “Reach”
April – September 2003
Kyongpuk National University, Taegoo, South Korea
Korean Language and Culture.
2002 – 2003
French Literature, College Francais, St Petersburg State University, Russia.
2002
BA in European Literature, Herzen State Pedagogical University, St Petersburg
Dictionary-Dramatic Structure of Michael Joyce’s Hyperfiction “Reach”
Membership of professional and learned societies
Electronic Literature Organization (ELO)
Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity in Practice (ELMCIP)
Translit Poetry Almanach, editorial board memeber
Experience
May 2020 – Present
ITMO Art&Science Centre, Researcher
15 June 2017 – Present
Language and Thinking Program Faculty, Bard College
30 September 2013 – Present
Associate Professor at Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St Petersburg
St.Petersburg State University/Bard College
January 2013 – February 2013
Postdoctoral research, University of Bergen, Norway
Developing the Russian Electronic Literature Research Collection in the ELMCIP (Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity in Practice) Knowledge Base.
Russian Electronic Literature Research Collection
August 2011 – January 2012
Postdoctoral research at MIT
Research on translation of electronic literature at Trope Tank, Writing and Humanistic Studies and Comparative Media Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
Course title: Visual Poetic of Literary Form
July 2012 – Present
Poetry and technology column editor at Rattapallax magazine, New York
http://rattapallax.com/blog/magazine
September 2012 – September 2013
Lecturer at Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia
St.Petersburg State University – Bard College
Courses taught:
Posthumanism in Art (co-taught with Vladimir Orlov)
Machine Art and Art of the Machines
Science Art History
Creative and Uncreative Writing
New Media in Contemporary Art
Geographies of Sound (co-taught with Olga Toulomi, Maria Sonevitska, Emilio Distretti)
Biennale, Festivals, and Key Projects in Contemporary Art (with Olesya Turkina)
September 2006 – December 2012
Associate Professor at Department of Foreign Languages
St Petersburg Technology and Design University
Grants and Awards
Short list of Kourekhin Prize 2014, 2016
April 2015
Calvert 22 Foundation
101 Festival. Poetics of Digital Technologies
New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre, Leningrad Centre, Ground Gallery
June 2014
St Petersburg State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Budget of “Notes On and After Conceptualism”, an international conference.
January – September 2013
SPIRE
postdoctoral research grant at Bergen University, Norway
2011-2012
Fulbright Faculty Development Program
Postdoctoral research at MIT, Cambridge, MA
2007
NCCA
Nizhny Novgorod, Arsennalle, Russia
2007
Norsgender
Feminist Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Denmark
Curatorial Projects
April 2019 – 101.Invisible Networks, Planetarium#1
Since 2014 until now – 101. Mediapoetry Festival, New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre
December 2018 – Redesign Desire, an exhibition project, Nepokorennie Studio
13 April – 28 May 2018 – 101.Player Select, an exhibit of interactive narratives, Lermontov Library
7 May – 1 June 2018 – Private life of radiofrequencies, Museum of Telecommunication, St Petersburg (co-curated with Sveta Gorlatova, Mila Vasilieva)
3-27 February 2018 – PERFORMA II, New Space of the Theatre of Nations
24 – 28 Jan – Culture of the Future Lab, Techne Platform, NCCA Moscow, member of a curatorial team
16 Dec 2017 – Track Track, Quartariata Gallery
10-27 Dec 2016 – con.txt, 2, 04 Gallery
12 April – 10 May 2016, 101.Formatting Memory, The New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre,Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St Petersburg State University, Vertical Gallery, Kourekhin Prize, long list
This is not a utopia/ Decentering: Global E-Lit, ELO 2015
6 August 2015 – 6 September 2015, Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen, Norway
101. Poetics of Digital Technology
4 – 12 April 2015, Leningrad Centre, New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St Petersburg State University
LEP (Laboratory of Experimental Poetry), Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Book chapters:
May 2017
Ванесса Плейс (пер. Н.Федорова), Поэтические чтения на Новой Голландии, Спб, 2017
December 2016
“Digital Lettrism: Alphanumeric orders” In Women in Techlit, West Virginia University Press
December 2015
“Digitalni Lettrismy: Abeceda” In Tredit Slova: Literatura a konceptualni tendence 1949 – 2015, Praha, 2015
Reviews:
May 2019
Федорова, Н.А. “Разыгрываемый архив”, НЛО №158 (4/2019)
October 2016
Это невозможно, но это реальность: матрица и праматерь. Рец на инсталляцию “Чего хочет сердце”, IX Berlin Biennale, Художественный журнал
October, 2013
“Institutions for Creating the Real Time”
Arterritory
August 2013
“Monday Begins on Saturday or Give us the New”
Arterritory
Feb 2013
Time as Perspective: textual and sculpture films
Arterritory
Articles
2018
Fedorova, N. “The first neuroopera ‘Noor’: transparent brain and the end of humanistic ethics?”, Russian Journal of Telecommunication, 2018
Fedorova, N. “Ether Island: Investigating sound movement correlations in a generative interactive installation”, BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of EVA Copenhagen 2018, Denmark
March 2016
IDN: Poetics of Infrastructure. Translit #19
December 2014
“The Trope Tank: A Laboratory with Material Resources for Creative Computing”
Nick Montfort, Erik Stayton, and Natalia Fedorova. Texto Digital 10:2, pp. 53-74
January, 2014
Cybertext Yearbook, University of Jyvaskyla
Мау 2013
Common Differences
Interview with Charles Bernstein, Translit#13
August 2012
Conceptualist Ostranenije: A dialogue between Derek Beaulieu (Canada) and Natalia Fedorova (Russia)
Jacket 2
2012
«Carrying Across Languages and Codes»
By Natalia Fedorova and Nick Montfort
2012
«Creative Material Computing in a Laboratory Context»
By Natalia Fedorova and Nick Montfort
2 February, 2012
«What is Electronic Literature?»
Interview with Nick Montfort
Chernovik
12 December, 2011
Translation of Three Poems by Nick Montfort
New River
2011
«Forms of Dialogization of the Word in Combinatoric Literature»
Translit. St-Petersburg
«Dmitry Golynko»
Dictionary of Russian Poets of the XXth century. St-Petersburg
2010
«Semantic Associations of the Form of the Square in Visual Poetry»
Print and Word of St-Petersburg. St-Petersburg
2007
«Literature after the Seventh Day. Author and Reader in Hyperfiction»
Bulletin of State Herzen Pedagogical University PhD Candidats Notebooks. 21(51)2007. St-Petersburg
2007
«Literature after the Seventh Day. Reader in Hyperfiction»
Textology Summmer School Materials. St-Petersburg
2007
«Literature after the Seventh Day. Author in Hyperfiction»
Author as Problem in Theoretical and Historical Poetics. Collected works. Vol 2. Minsk
2007
«Kinetism in Poetry. «Turnabouts» of Dmitry Avaliani»
Lake Techtology.
Collected works of the IV Textology and Sourcestudies of Russian Literature Summer School. St-Petersburg
2006
«Flight Typography in Vassily Kamensky’s “Tango with the Cows” and M.Gorlov’s “Chelovekoaeroplan”».
Modern Russian and European Literature Development Problems
Collected works. St-Perersburg
2006
«A Small Textological Utopia. Publishing Possibilities of Hypertextual Form»
Forest _ Textology. Collected works of IIIrd Textology and Sourcestudies of Russian Literature Summer School . St-Petersburg
2006
«Korean Visual Poetic Tradition and Concrete Poetry of the Second Half of the XXth century»
Literature as a Developing System. Issue 10. St-Petersburg
2005
«Synaethesia in Alexander Dobrolubov’s Poetic Volume «Natura naturans. Natura naturata»
Materials of the International Avant-garde Summer School. St-Petersburg
Screenings and performances
15 November 2018 – RR, Videoforma, Kourekhin Centre for Contemporary Art, St Petersburg
28 June – RR, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow
27 June 2018 – General Rehearsal: Referential Realism, solo performance, General Rehersal, VAC Foundation, Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art
27 February 2018 – Machine Libertine, PERFORMA II
December 2017 – Machine Libertine, Gamma Festival, M-division
16 Nov 2017 – Machine Libertine, Intellectual Marathon, International Cultural Forum, General Staff Building, Hermitage
18 July 2017 – 99 Names of God, ELO 2017, Fernando Pessoa University, Porto, Portugal
15 February 2017 – LEP, BYOB, Совместное существование, St Petersburg
20 May 2018 – Чтение переводом Ванессы Плейс, Поэтические чтения на Новой Голландии
10 October, 2016 – a poetry reading, Dannish Institute of Culture
2 October, 2016, Machine Libertine, Sonicology, Manezh, St Petersburg
27 August, 2016 – Taburetka Festival, Monchegorsk, Russia
18 May, 2016 – Noor, brain opera premiere, ISEA 2016, Hong Kong
12 April 2016 – 101, the instrument, 101.Formatting Memory Opening, The New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre
31 October, 2015 Machine Libertine, The Museum Night, Lenin Museum, Krasnoyarsk
6 August, 2015, Machine Libertine, Oste, Bergen, Norway
11 April, 2015, a mediapoetry performance, New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre
3 March, 2015
“On Language”, Danish Cultural Institute, St Petersburg
20 February ,2014
“Speaking Clock”, BYOB, Taiga Creative Space, St Petersburg, Russia
14 February, 2015
Laboratory of Experimental Poetry, Other Logics of Writing, Smolny College
8 December, 2014
Opening performance, Videoform Festival, Kourekhin Art Centre
October, 2014
Machine Libertine, Crosscontact Festival, Moscow
19 September, 2014
“On Art”, a poetry reading, REVERSE 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark
17 September 2014
Machine libertine, REVERSE 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark
1 June, 2014
Machine Libertine, Mediapoetry Festival, New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre
20 May, 2014
Machine Libertine, Projections of Avantgarde, Media Art Lab, Moscow Manezh, Russia
1 April, 2014
Mayfly, a mediapoetry reading, Tarp, Vilnius
26 March, 2014
“to Mars”, a poetry reading, Danish Cultural Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
18 March, 2014
«Точное время» (Epigraphic Clock), Media-poetry Festival, NCCA Moscow
22 January, 2014
«Lost and Found», Media Poetry Festival, Open Stage, Moscow, Russia
16 December, 2013
“Machine Libertine”, Victoria Gallery, Samara, Russia
20 November, 2013
“Machine Libertine”, Juvaskala, Finland
27 September, 2013
“Machine Libertine”, Ultramarine Gallery
10 September, 2013
“Machine Libertine”, Digital Arenas series, Bergen Public Library
“On Art” (collected poems) in LIT New York, USA
March 15, 2013
Machine Libertine screening and performance at PBR, Los Angeles, USA
March, 2013
“Memory” in Rattapallax 21, New York, USA
April, 2013
“emotional minimalism”(collected poems) in “Black Holes of Letters”, Samara, Russia
23-28 November 2012
“Machine Libertine” at CYBERFEST, Hermitage 20/21, St-Petersburg, Russia
28 September, 2012
“Machine Libertine” at Samara: LITerART 2012, Samara, Russia
22 July, 2012
“Machine Libertine” at Festival of Poetry on the Island, New Holland, St-Petersburg
20 -23 June, 2012
“Machine Libertine” at ELO 2012: Electronic Literature Organistion Conference, Morgantown
10-12 February, 2012
“Machine Libertine”, Snow Queen vs William Blake, Interrupt II, Brown University
24 October, 2011
“Seeing and Writing: Russian Multimedia Poetry,” Purple Blurp at MIT
Workshops and Laboratories
January 2014 – teaching and performing at Laboratory of mediapoetry by Elena Demi-dova, Open Stage, Moscow
2015 – 2018 – LEP (Laboratory of electronic/experimental poetry)
2016 – till now – a part of Laboratory of Mediart, New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre
February 2018 – PERFORMA II, Theatre of Nations Moscow
May 2018 – Laboratory Culture of the Future, ITMO University
General Rehearsal: Referential Realism, a workshop based on the exhibition
September – December 2018 – Moscow Multimedia Museum of Marcel Broodhaers, a series of workshops as an hommage to artist’s four year project Musée d’Art Moderne, Garage Centre for Contemporary Art
Personal exhibitions
August 2016
“Forms of Madness: Part I and Part II”, multimedia installation, 2,04 Gallery
Collective exhibitions
“con.txt”, Laboratory of experimental poetry works, 2,04, Museum on non-conformism, St Petersburg, Russia
“The End of Alphabet”, video projection,video Alex Antipin, Quartariata Art and Technology Residency
“Sorrel”, a video poem, video Alex Antipin, sound Taras Mashtalir, Formatting Memory, Vertical Gallery
“The Game”, video, with Sergey Katran, Until the Word is Gone, Vinzavod, Moscow
“Синдром Эльпенора”, Intertext, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art
“Lost and Found”, a videopoem, Transcription of Noise, 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, 22 September – 1 October, 2015
“Двое” by Nick Monfort, translated by Natalia Fedorova, Digital Poet, Electromuseum, Moscow, 10 June, 2015
“Синдром Эльпенора”, a text generator, Медиапоэтические машины, Skolkovo Art Lab, Moscow, 30 April, 2014
“Опции слов” (with Elena Demidova), Skolkovo Art Lab, Moscow, 6 February, 2014
«Точное время» (Speaking Clock), video installation, Manifesta 10 Public Program, Vitebsky Railway Station, 27 September, 2014
«Точное время» (Epigraphic Clock), Media-poetry Festival, NCCA Moscow, 17-18 March, 2014
Whoever You Are, a video poem, Liberated Words, Bristol, 3 October, 2013
Snow Queen, a video poem, Gallerie DDDL: Locate the Text, ELO 2013, Paris, 23 – 27 September, 2013
In Norwegian, an audio installation, Bergen Public Library, Norway, 5 September – 5 October, 2013
In Your Voice, a videopoem, Media Arts Show, ELO 2012: Electronic Literature Organistion Conference, Morgantown, WV, 20 -23 June, 2012
Printed Poems
August, 2014
Collected poems in “Black Holes of Letters”, Samara, Russia
2014
«Lost and Found» (gesture poem), Rooms for notes, Vienna, Austria
October, 2013
«Halfway Through» (code poem), III-Ill-Tempered Rubyist, Proppolis Press
October, 2013
«On Art» (collected poems) LIT
April, 2013
“emotional minimalism”(collected poems) in “Black Holes of Letters”, Samara, Russia
April, 2013
“Machine Libertine (compilations), textsound 15,
March, 2013
“Memory” in Rattapallax 21, New York, USA
Conference Papers, Talks and Presentations
March 2018
Машинное искусство двадцатого века, цикл лекций, Новая сцена Александринского театра
16 February 2018
@Future_god_bot генеративные поэтики и вычислительное возвышенное, Новейшая русская поэзия и современное гуманитарное знание: типологическая перспектива, НГУ
4 February 2018
«Буквально возможное», Новое пространство театра наций, Москва
2 February 2018
«Буквально возможное: технологии и литература», Чтения будущего, Лермонтовская библиотека
29 November 2017
Дипломатия образа: необъективная фотография, VAC
23 November 2017
“Internet of Names. Jodi IDN”, Re-Trace, Danube University, Austria
29 August 2018
“Noor – a brain opera”, Bard College
6 July 2017
“Twining a narrative”, UBU Lab, Jagellonian University
28 February 2017
«Биоконцептуализм: есть ли жизнь внутри стихотворения», «Новейшая русская поэзия в цифровом окружении: динамика текстуальности»
16 December 2016
“Genres of Electronic Writing”, Jagellonian University, Kracow, Poland
9-10 December 2016
“Текст прозрачный, застенчивый и невидимый. Генеративные инсталляции на небольших экранах”, Третий цифровой коллоквиум:Знание на экране: новые режимы видимости в социогуманитаристике, РАНХИГС
7 November 2016
“Произведение как действие: вводная лекция о медиаискусстве”, Pro Arte Institute, St Petersburg, Russia
11 November 2016
“Слово как действие: лекция о медиапоэзии”, Pro Arte Institute, St Petersburg, Russia
14 November 2016
“Слово в действии: мастеркласс” Pro Arte Institute, St Petersburg, Russia
2 October 2016
“Voice in Space”, Sonicology, Manezh
12 April 2016
“Memory of Machines”, The New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre
11 March 2016
“The Current State of Words”, State Hermitage Youth Education Centre
20 February 2016
“The Grammar of the Universe: The World as a Quantum Information System”, Quantum Entanglement, Laboratoria Art and Science Space, Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod
18 November 2015
participating in ARTBIOLAB: Margins and Problems of Bioart
7 November 2015
“ABC of Image Object”, Art Criticism 2.0, Prague National Gallery
30 October 2015
Поэзия на КРЯКК. Опыт перехода. Наблюдения поэта, Krasnoyarsk Book Fair
14 September 2015,
“Collective Art of Play”, round table moderating, Artprospect
2 September, 2015
“Sound Poetry: Lettrism and Poetics of Voice”, CYLAND educational program, Youth Centre of the State Hermitage
29 April, 2015
“Ocean of Sound: Objects and Space”, CYLAND Educational Program, Taiga
24 April, 2015
“Ocean of Sound: Voice and Speech”, CYLAND Educational Program, Taiga
12 April, 2015
“Technoeternity: What Will Remain After Us”, moderating roundtable discussion
11 April, 2015
“Technologies of Language Art”, 101 Poetics of Digital Technology, Alexandrinsky Theatre New Stage
15 March, 2015
“Laboratory of Experimental Poetry: Methodologies of Teaching Digital Art”, Close Encounter of Digital Kind, Digital and Visual Cultures in Liberal Arts, Bard Network, Istanbul, Turkey
7 February, 2015
“Mediapoetry Machines”, Skolkovo Art Lab,
8 December 2014
“Digital Lettrism: Textoids vs Pictoids”, Bergen University
18 September, 2014
“ABCs of Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov”
REVERSE International Poetry Festival, Copenhagen
11 August, 2014
“YpoetrY Media Art Lab: a Curatorial Statement”
Bury Art Musieum, Manchester, UK
18 June, 2014
“Postcommunist E-Lit”
ELO 2014: Electronic Literature Organization Conference, Milwaukee
1 June, 2014
“Technologies of Language Art”
Mediapoetry Festival, New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia
27 May, 2014
“Abstract Conceptualism of Ivan Khimin”
Notes On and After Conceptualisms, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
St. Petersburg State University
20 May, 2014
“Technologies of Letterism”
Projections of Avantgarde, Media Art Lab, Moscow Manezh, Russia
14 January, 2014
“Mediapoetry: a definition”
Media Poetry Lab, Moscow, Russia
16 December, 2013
“Digital Letterism”
Media Lab, Aerospace University, Samara
19 October, 2013
“Becoming Multimodal: New Literary Practices and the Screen”
Computation, New Media and Language Studies at NJIT
4 October, 2013
“Russian E-Lit”
Ha!awangarda Literary Festival, Krakow
5 September, 2013
“Mapping Russian E-Lit”
University of Bergen, Norway
16 June, 2013
“Russian E-Poetry”
E-Poetry Conference, Kingston University, UK
11 March, 2013
“Technologies of Conceptualism”
University of California, San Diego
9 March, 2013
“Carrying across Language and Code: Concrete Perl and The Two by Nick Montfort”
AWP Across Languages and Codes panel organized by Eireene Nealand, Boston, USA
28 January, 2013
“Russian E-Lit 1.0 – 3.0”
Bergen University, Norway
8 December, 2012
“Posthuman Philosophy in Arts”
College Francaise, St. Petersburg, Russia
23-28 November, 2012
“Current State of Poetry Generators”
CYBERFEST, Hermitage 20/21, St-Petersburg, Russia
1-3 November, 2012
“Russian Electronic Literature: Where Is It?”
ELMCIP: Remediating the Social, Edinburgh
1 October, 2012
“Current State of Poetry Generators”
Samara: LITerART 2012, Samara, Russia, 28 September
20 -23 June, 2012
“Literary vs Machines. Comments on artificial art myths”
ELO 2012: Electronic Literature Organistion Conference, Morgantown, WV
12-14 June, 2012
“Carrying across Language and Code” (with Nick Montfort)
Translating E-literature, Paris
30 May – 1 June, 2012
“Minimal Creative Systems. Through the Park, an Ellipsis System” (with Nick Montfort)
ICCC 2012 (International Conference on Computational Creativity, Dublin
4-5 May, 2012
“Russian Videopoetry in Kinetic Text”
Emergent Communities in Contemporary Experimental Writing, UC Santa Cruz
24 October, 2011
“Seeing and Writing: Russian Multimedia Poetry”
Purple Blurp D1G1T4L WR1T1NG series at MIT
Projects
Machine Libertine
multimedia poetry project co-founded with sonic artist Taras Mashtalir
Media-Poetry Lab
Skolkovo Art Lab – Open Stage Theatre, Moscow, Russia
video. abc
Series of videopoetry screenings at Andrey Bely Centre, St-Petersburg, Russia
video.txt
traveling videopoetry festival 2010-2012
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