Lost at sea. A sea of information. The deep sea calls to mind both an abyss and an infinitely generative expanse, a biosphere teeming with life exceeding that which any David Attenborough documentary could capture. As human engagements were shunted online in March 2020, the Moroccan-born artist Meriem Bennani found herself stranded in New York, where she’d lived since 2009. With the city on lockdown and the public transit residents rely on to move about suddenly deemed unsafe, Bennani, like many, holed up in her apartment. There, brows- ing YouTube channels from her home country, she began to consider the poetic resonance between internet cables buried deep beneath the ocean floor and the endless streams of content they distribute across continents. . .