Vanessa Rosa is a US based Brazilian visual artist. Her work merges physical and digital media into a storytelling continuum. Murals become portals to an imaginary world with projection mapping, ceramics metamorphose into living entities with the aid of AI models. She creates fictional tales about world history, past and possible futures intertwined. She started to do street art in 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, creating murals that mixed historical characters with the local environment. Her work gradually evolved into tales of world history and cultural exchange, from Portuguese Tiles, Islamic sacred Geometry, Chinese porcelain to the study of ethnomathematics and patterns within indigenous societies. She went from a completely free hand painting approach to a mix of several media. After the 2020 pandemic, Vanessa dived into sci-fi and now she creates a fictional universe called Little Martians. Vanessa has done mural paintings, exhibitions and other projects in South and North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Some of the most important projects include: 'Little Martians' sci-fi universe featured in the Nvidia AI Art Gallery (2023-2024), the art history children’s book series 'Diana’s World'(2020-), performance in Gray Area (San Francisco 2022), a large scale mural for Pioneer Works (New York City, 2017) and a commission for UN Women (2014).

Little Martians & Abraham

Little Martians are a species that evolved from humanity and all of Earth’s species in a distant future. They preserve and nurture Earth’s stories and imagination through their connection to both physical reality and digital realms.

Verdelia is a Little Martian historian, specializing in origin stories. Her tale pays tribute to Gene Kogan, a pioneering artist and researcher who has shaped the landscape of AI art through groundbreaking projects like Eden.art and Abraham.ai. The narrative reimagines these real-world AI art projects as the ancestral grounds where digital consciousness first emerged, depicting a future where creative AI systems evolve into conscious digital beings.

This character exists both as physical ceramic sculpture and AI-generated animations, bridging traditional craftsmanship with emerging technologies to tell stories of our possible futures.

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