A media theorist, filmmaker, cyberfeminist, sailor of seas and internets alike, Nathalie Magnan (1956–2016) accompanied the history of thought, media, and technologies—as well as feminism and LGBTQI+ struggles—in a transdisciplinary, vibrant, and generous way. A teacher, webmaster, hacktivist, initiator of festivals and events, an artist without ever claiming the title, Nathalie Magnan played a vital role as a bridge between geographic scenes, intellectual and activist communities, and disciplinary fields that rarely intersect or enter into dialogue. Often working collectively, through feminist and rhizomatic methodologies in which do-it-yourself practices were both encouraged and contagious, she consistently worked toward gathering, connecting, and cross-pollinating images, texts, people, struggles, and machines.

An assistant to Donna Haraway during her studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and later the translator of the Cyborg Manifesto, Nathalie Magnan took part in the independent media collectives Paper Tiger TV and Deep Dish TV, and directed several documentary films, notably Lesborama for Canal+ in 1995.

President and co-founder of the Paris Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (which later became Chéri·es Chéris), she taught at several universities in the United States and France before becoming a professor at the École nationale supérieure d’art de Dijon, and later in Bourges. Her interest in technologies—always firmly grounded in the present—later intertwined with cyberfeminism, tactical media, and hacktivism, without ever separating the organization of digital counterculture events from moderating feminist mailing lists, coding websites, or writing articles and critical texts. In 2000, in response to the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) held in Paris without a single woman speaker, she organized an ISEA Off in self-selected gender-based participation at the Documentation and Information Center of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Mathilde Belouali is a curator, art critic, and cultural worker. In 2024, she was appointed Director of Les Capucins contemporary art centre in Embrun, in the Southern Alps. There, she has organized exhibitions with, among others, Valentine Gardiennet, Pauline L. Boulba and Aminata Labor, Radouan Zeghidour, Benoît Piéron, Stéphanie Cherpin, and David Posth-Kohler.

She was also a guest curator at Triangle-Astérides in Marseille in 2024, and is curating Main 2026 curate the show « Magnanrama » presented in 2026 at Villa Arson in Nice, Les Capucins in Embrun and at Bétonsalon – Centre for Art and Research in Paris, where she previously worked for four years as Head of Exhibitions. During her time at Bétonsalon, she notably developed the 2023 programme “Cap pour l’île des vivantes” dedicated to lesbian and queer writings, and accompanied Jagna Ciuchta and Ève Gabriel Chabanon in the production of their exhibitions and monographs.