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Evelin Stermitz (born 1972) is an Austrian artist working in the areas of video art, new media art, performance, and photography,[1] who is also foundress of the ArtFem.TV project.[2]

Stermitz is a member of DLUL Društvo likovnih umetnikov Ljubljana (Association of Fine Artists Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia),[3] FACES: gender, technology, art,[4] and Gesellschaft Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler Österreichs, Künstlerhaus Wien (The Association of Austrian Artists, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Vienna, Austria).[1]

Evelin Stermitz participated in the international video collages of FemLink-Art- The International Video-Artists Collective,[5] and in the project 100x100=900 (100 video artists to tell a century) curated by Enrico Tomaselli.[6] Stermitz created the feminist net art work “World of Female Avatars”[7] 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.[8]

ArtFem.TV

Stermitz established ArtFem.TV in 2008 to promote the artistic works and projects of women artists on an international online video portal.[9]

The website features more than 500 videos dating back to early video art from the 1970s until current pieces from over 100 women artists[10] including Pipilotti Rist, Perry Bard, Nina Sobell, 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,[11] making ArtFem.TV a valuable resource for artists and researchers working in the field of feminist art.[12]

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.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b "Künstlerhaus - Verein - Mitglieder A - Z". K-haus.at. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  2. ^ Guri Kulaas, Videokunsten blir musikk, in: Klassekampen, March 9, 2012, Oslo, Norway, p. 23.
  3. ^ DLUL. "Vstopna stran". Društvo likovnih umetnikov Ljubljana. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  4. ^ "FACES – gender, technology, art". Faces-1.net. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  5. ^ FemLink-Art, Video-Collages of the International Collective / Les Collages-Vidéo du Collectif International, France, 2015, pp. 10-11, p. 137. ISBN 978-2-9553761-0-2
  6. ^ Enrico Tomaselli (ed.), 100x100=900 Project (100 videoartists to tell a century) an international project to celebrate 50th of videoart, a project by Magmart Video Under Volcano, Naples, Italy, 2013, p. 12, p. 205. ISBN 978-1-291-69608-0
  7. ^ Chus Tudelilla, La Red es la respuesta, in: Exit Book, revista semestral de libros de arte y cultura visual, No. 9, 2008, Madrid, Spain, pp. 128-129; p. 128. ISSN 1696-215X
  8. ^ Evelin Stermitz, World of Female Avatars: An Artistic Online Survey on the Female Body in Times of Virtual Reality, in: Leonardo, Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technologies, Vol. 41, No. 5, October 2008, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, pp. 538-539. ISSN 0024-094X
  9. ^ Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster, & Jane E. Sloan (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World (Vol. 1). SAGE Publications, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC, 2011, p. Ix.
  10. ^ Miha Horvat, Dilema o podobi ženske / The Women’s Image Dilemma, Interview with Evelin Stermitz, in: Folio, Časopis za sodobno umetnost, kulturo in veselje do življenja / Magazine for contemporary art, culture and the joy of life, Volume 3, No. 1/4, 2011, Maribor, Slovenia, pp. 126–129. ISSN 1855-8976
  11. ^ Mary Zeiss Stange, Carol K. Oyster, & Jane E. Sloan (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World (Vol. 1). SAGE Publications, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC, 2011, p. 91.
  12. ^ Karen Keifer-Boyd, Visual Culture and Gender Constructions, in: The International Journal of Arts Education, Volume 8, Number 1, July 2010, National Taiwan Arts Education Center, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 1-44 (English pp. 1-24, Chinese pp. 25-44); p. 7 and p. 29. ISSN 1728-175X
  13. ^ IX Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia, 2010, p. 69.
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