Evelin Stermitz (Austria)

Evelin Stermitz
http://evelinstermitz.net

participant in
Celebrate! – 10 Years JavaMuseum
NewMediaFest’2010

Evelin Stermitz, lives and works in Austria and Slovenia. She graduated with an M.A. degree in media and new media art from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and is holding a master’s degree in philosophy from media studies. Her works are in the field of media and new media art with the main emphasis on post-structuralist feminist art practices. Evelin Stermitz received grants for the International Summer Art School of the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, and the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria, within the media class by VALIE EXPORT.

Besides her artistic work, Evelin Stermitz’s research work is focused on women artists in media and new media art. Evelin Stermitz founded ArtFem.TV – Art and Feminism ITV (www.artfem.tv) in the year 2008 and received a special mention for ArtFem.TV at the IX Festival Internacional de la Imagen, University of Caldas, Manizales, Colombia, in the year 2010.
Selected Group Exhibitions: 2009 BAC! 10.0, Pandora’s B., Festival international de Arte Contemporáneo en Barcelona, CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain / Videomedeja, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia / 2008 “Femmes, femmes, femmes”, MAC/VAL Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France / Plus 3 Ferris Wheels: Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University / Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo, New York / Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Western Michigan University / 2007 chico.art.net v.4, The Electronic Arts Program, California State University / Imagining Ourselves, International Museum of Women, San Francisco / Video Art in the Age of the Internet, Chelsea Art Museum, New York / FILE Rio, Brazil / 2006 Cyberfem. Feminisms on the electronic landscape., EACC Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain.