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Evelin Stermitz (b. 1972) is an Austrian artist working in video, photography and new media, who is notable for founding the ArtFem.TV project. Her work focuses on gender and role models, in relation to Jacques Lacan's theory of the "Other" and Judith Butler's notion of performativity of the body.

Biography
Stermitz was born in Austria and later studied in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

ArtFem.TV
Stermitz established ArtFem.TV in 2008 to promote the artistic works and projects of women via an international online video portal. The website features more than 500 videos dating back to early video art from the 1970s from over 100 women artists 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, 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.