Join us at The Photographers’ Gallery on Friday 29th May at 18:00 for special activation of the online exhibition Ghost in the Loop, including a performance by Shaheer Tarar and a sticker swap. More details and booking HERE.
The Compression Zone is a video game performance by artist Shaheer Tarar that explores compression algorithms as one of the primary engines of world-making today. Shaheer performs the game live, navigating a perilous, multi-resolution dungeon where all the world’s data is sent to be compressed.
The performance acts as both a launch of the online exhibition Ghost in the Loop – featuring newly commissioned work by Shaheer Tarar, Valia Lolidou, Martyna Marciniak, Mariana Marangoni, Linden Derichs and Celune Acheampong – and a closing event for the exhibition Connection Established: Digital Folklore and Web Craft, co-curated by CSNI researcher Kendal Beynon.
Shaheer Tarar is an artist and geographer based in London. His work pursues stories buried in time, space, sediment, and code, examining artifacts that shape how the world is seen and governed. These investigations take the form of net art, experimental video games, and networked sculptures. His recent work traces how digital images are haunted by the infrastructures that produce them—and how those images, in turn, generate multiple and often competing worldviews. He is currently a Lecturer at Central Saint Martins and a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, where he researches internet geographies.
Ghost in the Loop is produced as part of the Inverted World Labs in partnership with Goethe-Institut London.