Amy Franceschini, artist (* 1970), is a new media artist/designer working with Notions of Community, Sustainable environments and the Conflicting rituals of humans and nature. Her work manifests "on" and "offline" in the form of dynamic websites, installations and printed matter. Franceschini sees herself as a farmer and looks to nature as the ultimate laboratory. Her work challenges the physicality of place and media. Currently, she teaches New Media courses at the San Francisco Art Institute and Stanford University. Since 1998, she has been collaborating with with Josh On, Sascha Merg and Michael Swaine to realize projects such as Holding Patterns, They Rule and Communiculture. In 1995, she co-founded Atlas magazine - one of the first 3 websites to be collected by a museum: SFMOMA.