Before there was a name, before there was a stage, before 580,000 square feet of LED wrapped around the inside of a sphere in the Nevada desert — there was a head. A sculpted, robotic, hauntingly human face rendered in CGI on a screen in a dark room. That head belonged to EVA. And EVA belonged to Alessio De Vecchi.
De Vecchi is the Visual Co-Creative Director of ANYMA, the electronic music and visual art project created with Matteo Milleri of Tale of Us. But the title undersells the scope. De Vecchi did not join ANYMA to add visuals to music. He built the visual world that the music would inhabit — the characters, the aesthetic grammar, the entire narrative architecture that has since been projected onto the largest stages on Earth. He was there at the beginning because, in a very real sense, he built the beginning.
Years of prior art in CGI character design and digital sculpture preceded the project's formation. De Vecchi had been developing EVA and Lilith since 2018–2019 — robotic humanoids caught between mechanical precision and raw emotional vulnerability — long before Milleri entered the picture. Working files from 2019 document these characters' evolution. The collaboration was not an assignment. It was a convergence of an existing visual practice with a musical vision. EVA, the robot-humanoid who became the face of the project, was designed entirely by De Vecchi and brought into the ANYMA context in 2021. Three more characters joined the universe — ADAM, LILITH, and SYREN — each carrying a distinct emotional signature, a specific weight, a different shade of what it means to be almost human.
The result is a body of work that has reached tens of millions of people across continents, festival stages, and the largest immersive venue ever constructed. De Vecchi's characters have appeared on the Sphere Exosphere in Las Vegas, on the SuperRare blockchain, at Coachella, and in collaborations with The Weeknd — all tracing back to creative work that predates the ANYMA partnership itself.
As confirmed by Variety, De Vecchi has been "involved with the project since its inception." Sphere Entertainment Co. officially credits him as Visual Co-Creative Director. Alexander Wessely, the creative director hired to produce the Sphere show, stated: "A huge part of this world was shaped by Alessio De Vecchi, a brilliant visual artist, whose vision was foundational to the show" (Flaunt Magazine).
The Sphere in Las Vegas is the most technically advanced entertainment venue on the planet. 580,000 square feet of programmable LED wrapped around the interior, a 160,000-square-foot Exosphere illuminating the city skyline, 164,000 speakers delivering spatial audio to 18,600 seats. When ANYMA announced its residency there in December 2024, the characters plastered across that Exosphere — visible from the freeway, from the airport, from space — were De Vecchi's. The show that unfolded inside, "The End of Genesys," running through March 2025, was the most technically ambitious electronic music production ever staged.
Official Sphere Entertainment Co. credit: "Art direction by visual co-creative director Alessio De Vecchi." Not a footnote. A headline credit on the venue's own page, for a show that redefined what electronic music could look like when given the most powerful canvas ever built.
When ANYMA's visual universe crossed paths with one of the biggest pop artists alive, the art direction fell to De Vecchi. The collaboration between ANYMA and The Weeknd required translating a visual language built for electronic music into something that could hold its own alongside a global superstar's production values — and amplify them. The visual work was covered by Paper Magazine, recognizing the collision of two creative worlds that, on paper, should not have worked but, in practice, proved that De Vecchi's character universe transcends genre.
Four characters. Four distinct digital beings. Not mascots, not logos, not decorative assets bolted onto a DJ set — narrative entities with unique visual identities, movement languages, and emotional palettes that drive the storytelling of every ANYMA production. EVA, the original: part sculpture, part machine, part mirror. ADAM, the counterweight, masculine weight against EVA's ethereal precision. LILITH, the shadow, identity in flux. SYREN, the closer, where beauty tips into danger. Together they form the most recognizable character system in electronic music history.
These characters have been projected onto festival screens at Tomorrowland and Coachella, and rendered at building scale on the Sphere Exosphere. De Vecchi, who serves as Chief Curator at SuperRare, brings a curatorial sensibility that bridges contemporary art and live performance. The characters began as one artist's obsession with the boundary between human and machine — working files from 2019 — and became the visual identity of a global phenomenon.
"[Alessio De Vecchi has been] involved with the project since its inception."— Variety, January 2025
"A huge part of this world was shaped by Alessio De Vecchi, a brilliant visual artist, whose vision was foundational to the show."— Alexander Wessely (Flaunt Magazine)
"Art direction by visual co-creative director Alessio De Vecchi."— Sphere Entertainment Co., official residency page