Manifesto Steganography appropriates Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 classic political cartoon “Join, or Die.” The original cartoon depicted a snake cut into eight segments, each representing a colony, symbolizing the need for unity among the colonies to avoid destruction. In this work, Ding Shiwei transforms the concept of the snake into smoke ducts and uses sixteen 5-inch circular screens to display hyper-realistic 3D animations on both ends of the eight ducts. The animations show human skin being raised by various techno-political phrases such as “Occupy-Secrete” and “Click-Ventriloquism” from a microscopic perspective. The piece aims to construct a new colonial role for technology in modern society, exploring the hidden power structures of “techno-politics” in contemporary society.