
Location: Rio de Janeiro
Featured project: Little Martians: Dear Human, My Muse
About Vanessa Rosa:
Vanessa Rosa is a US based Brazilian visual artist. Her work merges physical and digital media into a storytelling continuum. Murals become
portals to imaginary worlds 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.
Festival Recognition & Showcases:
Little Martians are seeds of Earth’s life, unique in their skills and interests. They adapt to many environments, nurturing and blending with local life or creating new life forms from existing materials. They communicate through the ‘Imaginarium’, a network of simulations that connects all Little Martians. This virtual realm holds Earth’s memories and imaginations, keeping the planet’s legacy alive as they build new lives on other worlds.
This project is created with physical handmade ceramic pieces that are transformed into AI-powered avatars in a sci-fi universe. Using a variety of AI techniques, such as 3d scanning, LORA training, audio2face and more, the sculptures become generative characters that can tell their own stories. ‘Dear Human, My Muse’ is a character introduction for Verdelis, a plant humanoid Little Martian who lives in an abandoned biodome on Mars and has a deep empathy for humanity.
Work & Portfolio Links:
Https://www.littlemartians.world
Official website:
https://www.instagram.com/va2rosa/
Email:
va2rosa@littlemartians.world
Festival Recognition & Showcases:
| Festival Submissions / Showcases |
| Award winner Korea International AI Film Festival | Global South Special Award | 2024 International Avant-Garde Film Awards | New York City, USA | Best Art Direction & Best Original Song | 2024 CineTech Future Fest | Best Original Soundtrack | Opole, Poland | 2024 Cannes World Film Festival | Best Female Director Super Short Film | Cannes, France | 2024 THE GALACTIC IMAGINARIUM FILM FESTIVAL (Sci-Fi & Fantasy) | Sci-Fi/Fantasy Short Film made with AI | Timișoara, Romania | 2024 Finalist Reel Intelligence | AI Short Film | Sydney, Australia | 2025 Qld XR Festival | Best in Creative AI | Brisbane, Australia | 2024 AA29 Video Project | Music video | Caserta, Italy | 2024 ORION IFF International Film Festival | Best AI Film (Artificial Intelligence Film) | Berlin, Germany | 2025 Semi-Finalist Austin AI Film Festival | Best Experimental | Austin, USA | 2025 Nominee Meta Morph AI Film Award | AI Evolution Award (Artificial Intelligence) | Online edition | 2024 Selected File Festival | Sao Paulo, 2026 Ai Short Film Festival *LARISSA LUMINA* | Narratives | Larissa, Greece | 2024 BEYOND FILMFESTIVAL 2025 | Utopian Films | Feuchtwangen, Germany | 2024 SHAPESHIFT FESTIVAL | Art&Technology Film | Sofia, Bulgaria | 2025 BAIFF – Burano Artificial Intelligence Film Festival | Music Video | Venezia, Italy | 2024 AI Artist | AI-generated | Beijing/Shanghai, China | 2024 Las Flores Web3 Film Festival | Short film Created with Artificial Intelligence | Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico | 2024 Festival Internacional de Cine con Medios Alternativos FICMA | Experimental Short Film / Cortometraje Experimental | Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico | 2024 |