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Nathalie Magnan (Novembre 29, 1956 - Octobre 15, 2016, Marseille) was a media theoretician and activist, a cyber-feminist, and film director. As webmistress, she moderated several well-known forums and discussion lists. She taught at both universities and art schools and is known for initiating collaborations linking Net Activism and navigating the high seas in the project Sailing for Geeks. She was co-organisiser of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in 1984. She died at home of complications from breast cancer on October 15th, 2016.

Education

After graduating with a Bachelor of Art degree at the University of Nanterre, Paris X, she continued her studies in the United States and obtained a Master of Fine Arts at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York where she met Catherine Lord, Mario Biagioli, Skuta Helgason and Lisa Bloom. She obtained a Qualifying Exam at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she met Teresa de Laureates who was working in the Women Studies department. In History of Consciousness, she met James Clifford and Donna Haraway, for whom she became assistant.

Teaching

She started her teaching career as lecturer at the University of California, Northridge and Chapman University in Orange where she taught an introductory class on photography during the 1984-85 school year. She was assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 1986 to 1990 where she taught media studies, cultural studies and the history of photography.

Upon returning to France, she sought to share her American experiences in her teachings, films, publications and events that she organised and participated in.

From 1991 to 1999, she was lecturer at the University of Paris VIII. In 1998 she became a full professor at the École nationale supérieure d'art in Dijon. In 2007, Paul Devautour invited her to come teach at the École nationale supérieure d’art in Bourges where she taught until 2012. One of her classes entitled, Genre, which she gave in association with Giovanna Zapperi, was thought of as a space for pedagogical innovations within which she organised a lecture series with C. Lord, B. Preciado, Shu Lea Chang, Yann Beauvais, Patrick Cardon... In 2012, she invited A-LI-CE6 (Claire Fristot) to give a VJing workshop. She established links and exchanges with Luang Prabang (Entr'écoles, 2008 and 2010) and with the University of Californie, Irvine (CRUde1 in the US and CRUde2 in France). In Bourges, she created collaborations with Emmetrop and also with Bandits Mages. Her teachings