"sifrmu: when i talk to you, there’s always someone else listening," is a performance involving bani’s encryption programme, sifrmu, which encrypts plaintext into ciphertext + sound. sifrmu is a portmanteau of 2 words. the word “sifr” is Arabic for = zero, of which in Malay is called sifar. Etymologically it is also the root word […]

"sifrmu: when i talk to you, there’s always someone else listening," is a performance involving bani’s encryption programme, sifrmu, which encrypts plaintext into ciphertext + sound. sifrmu is a portmanteau of 2 words. the word “sifr” is Arabic for = zero, of which in Malay is called sifar. Etymologically it is also the root word […]