contact / info talks / exhibitions The Afterlife project is
intended to instigate a metaphysical dialogue, examining the
cultural shift from belief systems upheld by organised religion
to the more factual basis of science and technology. The project
proposes the harnessing of our chemical potential after
biological death through the application of a microbial fuel
cell, harvesting its electrical potential in a dry cell battery.
Here, technology acts to provide conclusive proof of life after
death, life being contained in the battery  Technology has had
its attempt at creating life after death with cryonics -
freezing the body of the recently deceased in the hope of later
restoring it to life with the help of future technological
advances. But as religion demands unquestioned faith in its
believers, cryonics demands a similar faith in the progression
of technology. With this in mind, Afterlife offers a
technologically mediated service providing a tangible expression
of life after death. 13.7 billion years befo