Case 03/03. NINA ↔ watermark
NINA ↔ водяной знак
Art
- Artist
- Al Hirschfeld; Dmitri Shostakovich
- Work
- The name NINA in the drawings; the D–S–C–H motif
- Year
- since 1945; 1960
Hirschfeld hid his daughter's name NINA in every drawing. Shostakovich encoded himself in notes: D–E♭–C–B spells D. Sch. in German notation.
Code
watermarks
Files are signed secretly too: an invisible watermark in a photo, a mark in a document that reveals who leaked a copy.
Action
Play the D–E♭–C–B motif on the keyboard.
Сыграйте мотив D–Es–C–H на клавиатуре.
The label in the room
The same hash is printed at the foot of the label. If they match, nobody changed the text.
Hirschfeld hid the name NINA in his drawings, Shostakovich his initials in notes. Files are signed the same way, with an invisible watermark. Play D–E♭–C–B on the keyboard.
Хиршфельд прятал в рисунках имя NINA, Шостакович — свои инициалы в нотах. Файлы подписывают так же: невидимым водяным знаком. Сыграйте мотив D–Es–C–H на клавиатуре.
SHA-256 of the Russian label text 3a1b86c458940c2089c6d677483c8bc059c44fa7dcef5329fc07e8bff9c5f23b
In the room
A keyboard with the notes D–E♭–C–B marked; a card about Hirschfeld with a QR code
Rights