Samantha Rose Herle

Cybernetic Meadow (2026)

Cybernetic Meadow is a series of sculptures primarily consisting of reclaimed technology and both real and artificial plants.

It is partially inspired by the poem All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan.

“I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.”
-Richard Brautigan, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

Cybernetic Meadow installed at MIT for Reality Hack 2026.

Does the Internet Dream of Itself? (2026)

Does the Internet Dream of Itself? was created during Reality Hack at MIT by Samantha Herle, Ardalan Askarian, Sean Louis Rove, and Ben Branch.

This project is inspired by the question “does the internet dream of itself?”, posed by Werner Herzog in his film Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, and imagines a dream world shaped in real time by data collected from a user swiping through objects on their phone as well as by their heartbeat, which is monitored by a pulse sensor.

DevPost: https://devpost.com/software/dream_hackers

GitHub: https://github.com/ArdalanAskarian/dream_hackers

Super/Natural Soundscapes (2025)

Super/Natural Soundscapes is an immersive audiovisual installation created by Herle that allows users to create and explore their own spatial compositions in a VR environment. Equipped with a dynamic menu attached to their right hand, users can choose from a variety of assets. Some of the choices feature field recordings captured by Samantha and Tejay Haller at Mont-Saint-Bruno National Park, while others emit abstract, synthesized sounds. By placing and layering these elements, participants are invited to blur the boundaries between the natural and the surreal, and reimagine the relationship between real-world and artificial soundscapes.

Showcasing a WIP demo video of Super/Natural Soundscapes at the Société des Arts Technologiques (SAT)

Field recording at Mont-Saint-Bruno National Park

Virtual gallery for Art Waste Festival (2022)

Sam Herle was hired to build an interactive 3D exhibition featuring 30+ artists for Art Waste Festival 2022. During Art Waste and Music Waste Festival 2022 the gallery was projected on to a wall of the gallery space in Red Gate Arts Society, where passersby were able to explore the virtual space using a joystick on a stand. The gallery was hosted on the festival website as well, but is not longer available for viewing.

Cyber Warehouse (2020)

Cyber Warehouse was a virtual art gallery and exhibition space created by roommates Brodie Anderson-Pilon and Sam Herle during the initial 2020 lockdown, hosting shows that they curated as well as building exhibitions for pre-existing festivals and collectives, such as Unibrow Arts Festival. The fun and interactive landscape takes inspiration from early 2000s chat rooms and maximalist, early internet aesthetics. Cyber Warehouse was featured on the cover of Discorder Magazine’s November/December 2020 issue, as well as in Exclaim! Magazine.