Evelin Stermitz born 1972, citizenship Austria.
Working on media art projects by using different media like photography, video and net, including installations and conceptual works. The focus of art work is on female and socio-cultural topics. The issues of projects are about gender, role models and the gap between man and woman referring to the theory of Jacques Lacan in terms of "the Other” and the performativity of the body by Judith Butler. An important task is the female body and the outgoing connection to created symbolic meanings of gender in history and nowadays. In media theory the main interest is on the representation and approach of the female body in everyday media and media art encouraged by Barbara Krugers work “Your body is a battleground”. Completed the study of media communication at University Klagenfurt / Austria with a master’s degree in philosophy in the year 1999 and received a scholarship for the postgraduate study of visual communication at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (Prof. Milan Pajk – photography, Prof. Sreco Dragan – video and new media) in the year 2004. Graduated with a Master of Arts degree in the year 2007.
Scholarships
2006 International Summer Art School of the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia. New Media Workshop 2D Mutant Zombies (Low-Key Low-Tech Identity Mapping) by Dejan Grba
2006 International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria. Media works: Dream, dreams / things imagined, Sigmund Freud's 150th birthday, Media class by VALIE EXPORT