Women's Images Re-Edited: The Critical Remix Within Feminist Context

Evelin Stermitz

Evelin Stermitz University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract

One contemporary feminist critical remix practice is to subvert a male/ female dichotomy. In this essay, I discuss current aspects of remix and reediting criteria within feminist video works by women artists contextualized within feminist movements. I begin with a media critique of subverted women's media images by remixing them from commodified constructs into a disclosure of gendered ideals. My analysis deconstructs sexism and racism in a male and female dichotomous social system that still exists as a tradition of White and Black image constructions within a post-colonial discourse.

Author Biography

Evelin Stermitz, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Evelin Stermitz, M.A., M.Phil., studied Media and New Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and holds the degree in Philosophy from Media Studies. Her works in the field of media and new media art focus on post-structuralist feminist art practices. In 2008 she founded ArtFem.TV - Art and Feminism ITV (http://www.artfem.tv) and received a Special Mention for the project at the IX Festival Internacional de la Imagen, VI Muestra MonogrÃ¡fica de Media Art, University of Caldas, Manizales, Colombia, in 2010.

Her works have been exhibited and screened at various venues such as the MMoMA Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia / Vetlanda Museum, Sweden / Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City / Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina / PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli / CAM Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy / Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia / Fundació Joan Miró and CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain / Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, USA / MAC/VAL Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France / Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA / International Museum of Women, San Francisco, USA