[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.
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] Stermitz majored in the study of Pedagogics and Media Communication (1996 – 1999) at the University Klagenfurt, Austria, where she completed her master’s degree in Philosophy on the thesis “Imagoes of Dancing Women in Film” in the year 1999.
[9] Stermitz 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. Srečo Dragan – video and new media) in the year 2004.