Evelin Stermitz


Evelin Stermitz is an Austrian artist working in the areas of video art, new media art, performance, and photography, who is also foundress of the ArtFem.TV project.
Stermitz is a member of DLUL Društvo likovnih umetnikov Ljubljana, FACES: gender, technology, art, and Gesellschaft Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler Österreichs, Künstlerhaus Wien.
Evelin Stermitz participated in the international video collages of - The International Video-Artists Collective, and in the project curated by Enrico Tomaselli. Stermitz created the feminist net art work “World of Female Avatars” in the year 2006 as an ongoing project of cyberfeminism. World of Female Avatars is a project for expanded understanding of women and their relation to their body. By using the Internet as an artistic survey media as many different entries from different cultures as possible are collected. The public call for female body pictures and text with personal statements about the body are presented at this net art project. The submitted pictures and text are used for a digital collage to create new bodies, which live in the cyber World of Female Avatars.

ArtFem.TV

Stermitz established ArtFem.TV in 2008 to promote the artistic works and projects of women artists on an international online video portal.
The website features more than 500 videos dating back to early video art from the 1970s until current pieces from over 100 women artists including Pipilotti Rist, Perry Bard, Nina Sobell, :sl:Duba Sambolec|Duba Sambolec, Guerilla Girls, Irene Moon, Michelle Handelman, Grace Graupe-Pillard, Martha Rosler, Marina Núñez, Myriam Thyes, Joan Braderman, Terese Svoboda, Marina Gržinić, Annie Abrahams, Signe Baumane, Shelly Silver, among many other women artists.
Videos can be accessed free of charge at any time, making ArtFem.TV a valuable resource for artists and researchers working in the field of feminist art.
ArtFem.TV was awarded a Special Mention at the 2010 IX Festival Internacional de la Imagen, VI Muestra Monográfica de Media Art, University of Caldas, Manizales, Colombia.