Natalia Fedorova

an artist, researcher, and educator studying machine art through the prism of empathy. her artistic work focuses on mediation between the natural languages and the languages of machines and living systems.

  • Machines of Destruction

  • Chapter 2: Machines to be Another

  • budget estimate

    Detailed Budget Proposal: Tinguely Workshop (16 March 2026) This proposal outlines the estimated costs for the  Tinguely workshop, covering travel, accommodation, honoraria, and documentation. All figures are based on current estimates and are subject to slight variation. 1. Travel Costs Total Estimated Travel Cost: 1,200 euro Destination Participants Cost per Person (Round Trip) Total Cost…

  • documentation and materials

    documentation Either handled by the museum in-house, or an external videographer contracted for three key days: the scrapyard walk, the workshop preparation, and the final performance. Budget at €300/day + editing, totalling €900. performance and presentation workshop materials scavenged materials workshop stock tools 20 x power supplies 12V 20 x Motor speed controller 20 x…

  • audience and impact

    Audience and impact 12 participants or 12 groups of five Engage larger audience Tour – 50 people Performance 100 people Documentation Lectures and tours can be open for general public offline or online

  • Werner van der Zwan

    Werner van der Zwan (The Hague, 1995) studied Fine Arts (WdkA) and Philosophy (EUR). He creates robotic installations and sculptures from discarded objects and found materials, like a chair found on the street, or a tree that fell down during the storm. By de- and reconstructing, and intervening mechanically in the objects, he does not…

  • Marta Wörner

    Portrait Earthrise 2021, performance Teaser Falling in. Notes on body, space and matter: https://vimeo.com/484463608/7ea8145c66 Falling in. Notes on body, space and matter 2019. Performance

  • approach

    Tinguely’s Workshop: Exploring the Mechanical Poetics of ‘Tout Ramenė’ Introduction: The Visual and Emotional Resonance of Tinguely’s Work The art of Jean Tinguely is a celebration of movement, noise, and playful chaos. It possesses a distinct visual energy and a profound emotional resonance that speaks to the joy and absurdity of mechanical life. This workshop…

  • kinetic garden. description of the workshop

    This seven-day workshop offers an embodied approach of thinking with making. We invite participants to recreate the Tinguely practice through using found materials and, in an explorative fashion to put them together in a form of a kinetic garden. By kinetic garden we understand a place of co-habitation of living creatures and technological objects.  Led by…

  • day 7. sculpture garden

    Objective: This is the final day of the workshop when the results of the previous days’ work are assembled together and prepared for interaction with the public. setup Participants bring their sculptures outside and arrange them in the garden as a group — thinking about spacing, proximity, and what someone moving through the space encounters.…