Isaías Herrera

An immersive VR experience that reconstructs the Chihuahuan Desert as a living archive of geological and human transformation. Spanning the Mesozoic Era, the 16th, 19th, and 21st centuries, the work navigates environments that evolve from paleontological reality into the materialization of cultural imaginaries, revealing a territory scarred by distinct strata of violence—ecological, theological, colonial, and organized crime. Far from a passive observation, the piece confronts visitors with situated ethical dilemmas—from Inquisitorial trials to contemporary narco-recruitment—to question the violence normalized by each era. The journey is anchored by the Canto Cardenche, a dying traditional lament that embodies the region’s historical wounds and resilience.

A bio-hybrid interface that uses unsupervised AI to translate the agency of Physarum polycephalum into robotic gestures. By mapping biological states into a latent space, the piece materializes the slow spatial intelligence of a liminal organism into a real-time speculative language articulated by a prosthetic hand.

The Artificial Sonorous Ecosystem is a life simulator manifested through sound, where autonomous digital organisms experience life cycles influenced by natural environmental stimuli. While primarily a sonic ecosystem, the work includes a companion web interface that allows users to visualize and isolate individual organisms, serving as a tool to assist and deepen the act of listening to this closed, non-anthropocentric cycle.

Zoonoros is a transdisciplinary laboratory and collective that merges live performance, spoken word, and sound art. Using custom low-tech wearables and sensory prosthetics, the collective creates improvisational pieces that explore the interplay between the voice, the body, and the machine. The project reframes technology not as a tool for efficiency, but as a medium to embody fragility and translate divergent ways of sensing the world into a shared, live experience.

An exploration that seeks to map the topography of the subconscious, this installation uses generative sound and data interpretation to give physical form to the ephemeral nature of the dream state. Functioning as a mediation device for the psyche, the work translates subjective, intangible memory into a collective spatial experience that the user can navigate, blurring the boundaries between the mental and the physical. Through a minimalist web interface dedicated to text input, the system symbolically deconstructs personal narrative and rearticulates it in the auditory realm.