The World Above Us, 2019
Single-channel video
Duration: 3 min. (infinite loop)
401 Richmond Art Collection, Toronto
A natural day-night pattern runs across the screen like a pulsing frequency while a continuous swarm of aeroplanes, carrying half a million people, fly across the globe. No matter the time of day, the density remains the same in a choreographed 24/7 networked flow, flattening the distinction between past, present and future. In order to document a 24-hour cycle of global commercial travel for The World Above Us, DiCarlo joined a community of DIY aviation tracking enthusiasts, learning to build her own localized ADS-B receiver. Using speciality software, she recorded hundreds of real-time flights and then compressed the footage into a time-lapsed loop to further accelerate the non-stop flow of global trade and travel.