Born and raised in Miami, Violeta Lopez, known as Violet Forest, is an artist who creatively fuses art and technology. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Florida International University (2012), where she studied film photography, photobooks, and experimental video art. Her outstanding undergraduate project was The Wiki Project (2011), a documentary photo essay of her sister.
Violet also holds an MFA in Art and Technology from the Chicago School of Art Institute (2016). She was a member of the Cybertwee Collective, known for the project Cybertwee Bakesale, which explores the intersections between femininity, technology, and education.
After her studies, she worked in front-end and Unity in Chicago and worked as a UX Design Technologist at Volkswagen Future Center Europe in Berlin (2018-2020). After completing his fellowship in Paris, she returned to America in 2021 and actively engaged in the direction of NFT art.
She is fully involved in digital creation at Hicetnunc, Foundation, and FxHash. Her work, which includes web art, gaming/virtual reality, and GAN art, has been exhibited at Birmingham Open Media (UK) and the Berlin Transmedia Festival.