Hidden Identity

Tess Eschebach

Designed for Digital Bodies
2021

Copper wire, Recycled Paper, Glue.

Hidden Identity is a speculative anti-surveillance mask inspired by themes from Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” and Blas and Gaboury’s “Biometrics and Opacity: A Conversation”. While seeking to subvert digital surveillance technologies, the mask itself is tactile and non-electrified building upon ideas of the integration of machines and biology. The combination of these factors helps create the obscurity and vibrant individuality of the mask in its final form.