Nathalie Magnan

Nathalie Magnan in the 1990s

Nathalie Magnan (born November 29, 1956 in Marseille ; died October 15, 2016 there ) was a French media theorist , media artist and film director . She was co-organizer of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in 1984 .

Private

She died of breast cancer in Marseille in 2016.

education

Nathalie Magnan first studied at the University of Paris-Nanterre , where she graduated with a Bachelor of Art, then she enrolled at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, where she obtained a Master of Fine Arts. During this time she met Catherine Lord, Mario Biagioli, Skuta Helgason and Lisa Bloom. As a result, she passed an entrance exam for the University of California at Santa Cruz . There she met Teresa de Lauretis , who worked at the Women Studies department . At the History of Consciousness , a department for interdisciplinary research, she met the historian James Clifford and the women researcher Donna Haraway , to whom she became an assistant.

Teaching

She began teaching as a lecturer at California State University , Northridge (Los Angeles) and the private Chapman University in Orange, California , where she taught the entry-level photography class in the 1984–85 school year. From 1986 to 1990 she was an assistant professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she taught media studies , cultural studies and the history of photography.

Upon her return to France, she tried to pass on her American experience in her courses, films, publications, and the events she organized and attended.

In 1998 she became a professor at the École nationale supérieure d'art in Dijon . In 2007 Paul Devautour invited her to teach at the École nationale supérieure d'art in Bourges , where she worked until 2012. One of her classes, named with reference to Giovanna Zapperi Genre , was conceived as a space for educational innovations, in which she organized a lecture series with thought of as a space for pedagogical innovations within which she organized a lecture series with C. Lord, Paul B. Preciado , Shu Lea Cheang, Yann Beauvais and Patrick Cardon. In 2012 she organized a VJing workshop with A-LI-CE6 (Claire Fristot). She established a regular exchange with the art scene in Luang Prabang, Lao (Entr'écoles, 2008 and 2010) and with the University of California in Irvine (California) (CRUde1 in the USA and CRUde2 in France). In Bourges, she maintained collaborations with the Emmetrop art association and the Bandits Mages artist group . In her courses she focused on a critical analysis of media from a feminist , queer and postcolonial point of view. She wanted less to impart knowledge than to develop methods in a cross-disciplinary process that leads to overcoming isolated considerations.

activities

Directing and publishing

In the United States, Magnon has seen her work on both public television and alternative media. She made several films with the collectives Paper Tiger Television and Deep Dish TV , including B. The Gringo in Mañanaland.

Based on her theoretical and active engagement with the media, she published La Vidéo: entre art et communication , followed by Connexions: arts, réseaux, médias in collaboration with Annick Bureaud. She managed the French distribution lists Nettime and CEDAR, the coordination of all French art schools.

Cyber ​​feminism

Magnan is one of the French pioneers of cyber feminism . She created the now defunct website Cyberféminismes.org . In 1999 she was invited to the Canal webshow Les Pénélopes for a discussion group on cyber feminism .

Nathalie Magnan has attended a variety of events related to her areas of expertise. In 2000 the ISEA ( international symposium on electronic arts ) took place in Paris . Not a single woman was among those invited. On the initiative of Nathalie Magnan, one hundred women met at ENSBA . After a welcome by Mathilde Ferrer, an ISEA counter-event was held. For the first time, women who are active in the field of electronic art received public attention.

In 2001 she took part in the Very Cyberfeminist International Festival in Hamburg . In 2002 she translated and published the Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway. She organized a presentation of female artists active in the digital world Openmic cyberfem in the Parisian cultural center Maison des Métallos , a gender changer academy and workshops for the cyber platform ZELIG. She created the feminist online forum Chiennes de Garde and managed it until 2003.

In 2008 she organized the Femmes et Réseaux Meeting under the motto Women and Networks in Paris together with Isabelle Arvers and Anne Roquigny. She spoke about feminism and cyberfeminism in 2009 at the Master of Advanced Studies at the Zurich University of the Arts and in March 2010 in Paris.

In March 2015 she was a participant in the Wikipedia Art + Feminism Edit-a-thon in Paris.

Sailing for geeks

Nathalie Magnan invented the concept of Sailing for geeks (German: sailing for computer freaks ), which combined cyber technology and the strict logic of sailing. Sailing for geeks 1 was held at ISEA 2004 in Finland , Sailing for geeks 2 took place on the Strait of Gibraltar in 2005 , where participants met people trying to reach Europe from the Moroccan coast.

Her last public appearance took place on November 21, 2015 in the Parisian anthropology museum Musée de l'Homme .

LGBT activism

Nathalie Magnan co-organized the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in 1984 . In the 1990s she was a participant in the New Queer Cinema Festival at the American Center in Paris . In 1992 she was an author for the LGBT weekly newspaper Gai Pied . In 1994 she and others founded the Chéries-Chéris film festival , of which she was president in 2001 and 2002. In December 1995 she joined Lesborama and attended the Questions de genre festival - 100 ans de cinéma gai et lesbien - 10 ans de prévention in Lille .

reception

In recognition of Nathalie Mangan's merits, the exhibition Computer Grrrls , which will take place from October 2018 to February 2019 at the Hartware MedienKunstVerein in Dortmund , was dedicated to the protagonist of feminist media art. The exhibition will also be shown at the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris and the MU artspace in Eindhoven in 2019 and deals with the complex relationship between women and technology.

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Publications

• La vidéo: entre art et communication , Paris, ENSBA, 1997
• Connexion, art, réseaux, médias , Paris, ENSBA, 2002, p. 642, with Annick Bureaud ISBN 2-84056-079-8
• Donna Haraway, Manifeste cyborg et autres essais: Sciences - Fictions - Féminismes; anthologie établie par Laurence Allard, Delphine Gardey et Nathalie Magnan , Paris, Exils, 2007, p. 333
• Donna Haraway (translated into French by Marie Héléne Dumas, Charlotte Gould, Nathalie Magnan), “Manifeste Cyborg: Science, Technologie et Féminisme socialiste à la fin du XXe Siècle”, www.cyberfeminisme.org , 2002

Contributions to multi-author publications and scientific journals

• Art, Hack, Hacktivisme, culture jamming, médias tactiques in ART ++ , David-Olivier Lartigaud, ed.HYX and Laboratoire des arts et des médias, Paris, 2011
• 15 ans de création artistique sur internet, WJ-Spots # 1 in Musiques et cultures digitales, hors série # 3 , Anne Roquigny (ed.), September 2009
• Pour une pratique politique du code in Arts numériques, Tendances, Artistes, Lieux et Festivals , Anne-Cécile Worms (ed.), M21 édition, September 2008
• Al Jazeera English: An Interview with Hassan Ibrahim , in Tactics in Hard Times: Space and Practice of New Media , MIT Press, 2008
• Second Life, un genre de gouvernance , in Second Life, un autre monde possible , Agnès de Cayeux and Cécile Guibert (eds.), Les Petits matins, 2007
• Présentation du Manifeste Cyborg in Mouvements No. 45/4 , May – August 2006
• Au commencement était le réseau , in Power , Villette numérique, 2004
• Cinéma pornographique lesbien , in Dictionnaire des cultures gays et lesbiennes , Didier Eribon (ed.), Larousse, 2003
• Cultural Jamming / Media Tactics in Through the 'net studies in Johen Gerz' Anthologie of Art , Salon Verlag, 2003
• La Télévision comme moyen artistique et outil démocratique de participation , with Jean-Christophe Royoux, Radiotemporaire, École du Magasin, 2002
• Rethinking Female Experience (s) , with others, in n.paradoxa, international feminist art journal , KT publication, vol 10, London, July 2002
• Not working Chiennes de garde , in Very Cyberfeminist International, a reader on OBN (Old boys network) Conference , Helene Von Oldenburg, Claudia Reiche (Ed.), B_books, Berlin, 2002
• Groupes tendances mouvements de l'art contemporain , Mathilde Ferrer, Marie-Hélène Colas-Adler, Jeanne Lambert Cabrejo (eds.), ENSb-a, 2001
• Cartographie subjective eturrentée des cyberféministes , in Femmes & Art au XXe siècle: le temps des défis , Lunes, special issue No.2, 2000
• Cartographie subjective eturrentée des cyberféministes , in Synesthésie No. 9
• A personal map of the resistance movement in France , in Next 5 Minutes 3: The Art of Campaigning , Amsterdam, 1999,
• Tactiques media et Cyber ​​guerilla , in Blocnotes , April – May 1996,
• Access for Others: Alter (Native) Media Practice , with DeeDee Halleck, in Visual anthropology Review , University of California, Berkley, Spring 1993,
• The Same difference: On Lesbian Representation , with Martha Gever, in Stolen Glances: Lesbians takephotographs , Tessa Boffin and Jean Fraser eds, Pandora, Londons, 1991
• Don't just watch it, Make it or Stratégies de représentation telles que les pratiquent les collectifs vidéo US dans les années 1990 , in Dénonciation , collection catalog , Béatrice Simonot and Liliana Albertazzi (eds.), La Différence / GNAC-Usine Fromage, Rouen , 1991
• Vidéo résistance à l'heure des satellites , in Le Monde diplomatique , May 1991 , republished in Cartes sur Câble , Belgium, and in Média Mensonges et Démocratie , May 1991, and in the CRAC Valence symposium Guerres et Télévision , Collection 25 Images secondes , 1991
• Deconstructing Difference , with Martha Gever, Screen, London, 1987
• Sciences humaines et faits de société , catalog for the Cnc, Images de la culture ,

Filmography

• Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu, et en plus c'est vrai , Canal +, 24 ', 1996
• Un homme sur deux est une femme , La Huit, 5 ', 1996
• Internautes , Canal +, 13 ', 1995
• Lesborama , Canal +, 30 ', 1995
• Dee Dee Halleck, El Gringo in Mañanaland , 1995, with Dee Dee Halleck
• High Tech Baby , Deep Dish TV, 30 ', Spring 1994, with Kathy High.
• L'Eprouvante éprouvette , G. Production, 34 ', 1991
• Avez-vous vu la guerre? , 45 ', 1991, with Canal déchaîné
• Martha Rosler reads the case of Baby SM, or, Born to be sold , 27 ', 1988, with Paper Tiger TV, New York
• Donna Haraway reads the National Geographic of Primates , 27 ', 1987, with Paper Tiger TV, New York

credentials

1. ↑ Le cyberféminisme en deuil de Nathalie Magnan - revue art contemporain - revue art contemporain ( fr ) Retrieved on October 1, 2017.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Bruce Sterling: Nathalie Magnan (en-US) . In: WIRED . Retrieved October 1, 2017. 
3. ^ UC Davis School of Law - Faculty & Administration - biagioli - Mario Biagioli ( en ) Retrieved October 1, 2017.
4. ↑ Nathalie Magnan (1956-2016) . Retrieved October 1, 2017.
5. ^ Mamco / Yoon Ja & Paul Devautour . Archived from the original on February 28, 2017. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Super User: Nathalie Magnan ( fr-FR ) Accessed October 1, 2017.
7. ↑ Report Workshop VJ / ENSA Bourges - Janvier 2012 / Les reports / VJ FRANCE ( fr ) Retrieved on October 1, 2017.
8. ↑ ecoles art luang-prabang vientiane / bourges & bandits-mages . March 10, 2010. Archived from the original on March 10, 2010. Retrieved October 1, 2017.
9. ↑ ^{a b} Art, Hack, Hacktivisme, culture jamming, médias tactiques . 2000. Archived from the original on February 27, 2017. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
10. ^ Vidéo-résistance à l'heure des satellites (fr) . In: Le Monde diplomatique , May 1, 1991. Retrieved October 1, 2017. 
11. ↑ Nathalie Magnan: Contre programs . October 1992.
12. ↑ Political Video in France? By Nathalie Magnan | transmediale ( en )
13. ↑ ISEA International Website ( en-US ) Retrieved October 1, 2017.
14. ↑ Faces . Archived from the original on November 23, 2003. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
15. ↑ Interdit aux garçons (fr) . In: Liberation.fr . Retrieved October 1, 2017. 
16. ↑ poptronics' Haraway invite humains, machines et animaux à la table des négos ( fr ) Accessed October 1, 2017.
17. ↑ GCA herstory . Retrieved October 1, 2017.
18. ↑ Zeligsrc2 . Archived from the original on May 20, 2004. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
19. ↑ Editathon Art + Feminism ( fr-FR ) Retrieved on October 1, 2017th
20. ↑ l'Autre Net, hébergeur associatif autogéré ( fr ) Archived from the original on June 6, 2009. Retrieved on October 1, 2017.
21. ^ Tarifa, détroit à l'étroit, invente un territoire (fr) . In: Liberation.fr . Retrieved October 1, 2017. 
22. ^ Blackmarket for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge No. 18: Devenir terriens - Production - Council ( fr ) Archived from the original on May 23, 2017. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
23. ↑ Jérémie Lacker: Edit-a-thon Wikipédia Art + Feminism dédié à Nathalie Magnan (fr) . In: La Gaîté lyrique , July 5, 2017. Retrieved October 1, 2017. 
24. ↑ Pierre Léonard: FGL: Question de Genre 4 . Archived from the original on March 1, 2017. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
25. ↑ Cartographie subjective eturrentée des cyberféministes . Retrieved October 1, 2017.
26. ↑ Gringo in Mananaland in the IMDb

Web links

• Nathalie Magnan's website
• Web presence about cyber feminism created by Nathalie Magnan
• Interview with Nathalie Magnan "La façon de parler aux femmes est un combat permanent"