Render Labor CDMX | kadambari-baxi

At the cusp of ongoing transformations in computerization, automation, optimization, and A(G)I, Render Labor: Digitally / Built Humanly Automated explores the modes and spaces of synthetic image production. Focusing on the work of rendering, the exhibition exposes the processes of visualization from design to production, consumption and dissemination. Highlighting the rifts in between and alongside these processes, it draws attention to resource and energy extraction, labor and mental exploitation, and the problematics and possibilities embedded in rendering practices. In four sections: Synthetic Image, Workflows, Infrastructures and Interactions, it revisits design, technical, spatial and labor forces underpinning synthetic imaging.

The exhibition unfolds how and what human and (im)material resources–either integral or generative–are invisibilized, exploited and expropriated. Framed as complete pictures, renderings provide a provisional view into a potential environment, often full of real-life elements, and in which the distinctions between the real and the virtual are designed to disappear. Render Labor focuses on what is outside this enclosed frame, on the other side of the resolute picture, or in between the flicker of the screen-based moving image, where collective authors, producers, economies and infrastructures remain visible.

Project: Kadambari Baxi | Curator: Tania Tovar
Curatorial Research: Juan Carlos Espinosa Cuock
Project Team: Fernando Álvarez Camacho, Elena González Aguado, Mayela Pérez Dimas, Hermes Ríos Posada, Valeria Servin Galindo, Jess Kuntz

Exhibition features works by: Fernando Álvarez, Kadambari Baxi, Ciaran Cassidy & Adrian Chen, Guy de Lancey & Nini Dongier, Rolando Girodengo, Elena González & César G. Aldape,
Arata Isosaki & Associates, Andrew Norman Wilson, Alex Roman, Nick Thruston