“Dark Life” is the video portion of a speculative design project developed in the course “Who Comes After the Human?” This project conceptualizes a posthuman and post-Anthropocene life that might exist long after humanity has gone extinct.

My proposal for the next iteration of life on this planet is the extremophile, which I argue represents a “dark life;” an existence at the limits of human comprehension, a life that can only be gleaned obliquely, in shadows, through negation.

This video project utilizes datamoshing, found archival footage, and glitch soundscapes to represent the sensorial, affective, and aesthetic aspects of this speculative future.