Emily DiCarlo
The Futurity Race
VERSION ORIGINALE
In 1907, Dr. Julius Neubronner harnessed a camera to his pet carrier pigeon, marking the birth of aerial photography and ultimately, reframing how we see the world. Having created the first « drone » – a concept then co-opted for reconnaissance during WWI – his scientific curiosity anticipated GPS mapping, contemporary surveillance, and drone warfare.
The Futurity Race chronicles the young bird « futurity race, » where trained pigeons equipped with body cams fly home from a racing station more than 800 km away, the winner receiving a significant monetary prize. As they lift, drag and thrust in flight, their swirling flocking patterns produce glitched images with every wing flap, offering a unique perspective that contrasts the ubiquitous and detached renderings of Google Earth imaging.
The project critiques the current discourse on corporate-led technological accelerationism in Anthropogenic times by using race-tracking technology, body cameras, and drone footage to capture the embodied perspectives of birds, humans, and machines.
BIO
Emily DiCarlo is an artist, researcher, and writer whose interdisciplinary practice considers site, temporality and collaboration as the foundational principles for meaning-making.. She recently exhibited at the Karsh-Masson Gallery (Ottawa, Canada), NARS Foundation Main Gallery (Brooklyn, USA), Yamaguchi University (Japan), the plumb, FADO Performance Art Centre, Art Museum (Toronto, Canada) and SÍM Gallery (Reykjavik, Iceland). Her research has been supported by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Canada Council for the Arts. Her video work is represented by Vtape, Canada’s largest distributor of video art and is included in the permanent collections of 401 Richmond (Toronto) and The City of Ottawa.
She writes alongside her visual practice, often focusing on the sociopolitical implications of predominant time structures in contrast to alternative temporalities through feminist phenomenology, queer time theory and more-than-human ontologies. recently contributing an experimental text to the Toronto Biennial of Art programs publication and her chapter, « Transcending Temporal Variance: Time Specificity, Long Distance Performance and the Intersubjective Site, » to the current volume of The Study of Time (Brill Publishing). Her work has also appeared in The Sociological Review magazine and KronoScope academic journal.
Exposition
11 janvier au 9 février 2025
Exposition
8 mars au 6 avril 2025