Moving through glassy lava cracks, among cascading canyon currents, and below the abyssal plains, the 3D animated series ‘Seafloor Futures’—by Mae Lubetkin, Denisa Müllerová, NEXCYIA, and the ocean comm/uni/ty—offers a glimpse of possible futures that reorient us to act with seafloors now. The ‘Seafloor Futures’ animation video is viewable above, as well as directly on YouTube and on Ocean Archive.

A series of written works respond to the potential and ongoing loss, disappearance, and ruination of seafloors and oceanic lifeways. Estelle Coppolani’s piece ‘La démission’ echoes the problems with extractivism and data capture in the form of a tribute from a pseudo-anthropological angle. While Jamil Fiorino-Habib’s article ‘Oceanic Ruination and the Grievability of the Unknown’ questions what it might mean to grieve the loss of entities that are not yet known to be lost. Linking the project theory and co-making methods, ‘More-than-Data’ by Mae Lubetkin outlines and defines the core concept below the Seafloor Futures project.