FRISSON’s inaugural exhibition, NANNYCAM, presents the work of five artists as a meditation on agency within self and structural surveillance. Today, it is passé to speak of the digital panopticon under which our reality unfolds. The contemporary neurosis that our every moment, movement, and expressed thought is tracked, recorded, and analyzed has become the status quo. Our data profiles us, feeding the algorithm with the fuel necessary to cater precise content and reinforcing limited worldviews. We are trapped within an epistemological enclosure, with continuously reinforced boundaries and a shrinking diameter. The informational quicksand is but a manifestation of the complete temporal ossification that plagues the contemporary moment. There is an overarching sense that nothing new is possible, that no alternative beyond those that have already been tried. How can we develop techniques to resist and overcome the limitations of our relationship with technology?
