C3 presents: CTRL-SPACE by JODI Jodi (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans) have made a name for themselves with their radically playful Internet-based body of work located on their web-domain (http://www.jodi.org). They make art with HTML, as a painter with pigment and canvas. They work explicitly with and for the Internet. WWW is their material, as well as their distribution system. The first thing one feels when visiting their site is surprise: a blinking monitor, as if the machine would crash. It is not a crash, however, and visitors may find hyperlinks to other unusual pages. One can surf for a long time through a large number of dynamically edited, radically designed pages without any sort of instructions or textual information. We see only tricky visuals in a deconstructivist manner, oscillating between play and provocation, on the server which shows a different face each week. Children should also feel free to visit the site. They have won numerous awards with their activities, as well as being featured in last year's Documenta (X) in Kassel, which is one of the most important presentations of contemporary art worldwide, as it is no small feat to define contemporary art for the next five years to come. As guests of the International Residency Program at C3, they developed CTRL-SPACE (http://ctrl-space.c3.hu), a network game available from, and playable on, the Internet. It is a hacked version of the well-known Quake, using its navigation system, but it looks totally different from the gothic style of the original (to that, they reply that its even own Mother would not be able to recognise it). Not only are the weapons missing, but it is designed in the manner how virtual reality was imagined ten years ago. It functions as a meeting-place in cyberspace, a three-dimensional environment where players can navigate, jump, meet, act and talk with the help of their avatars. All this from a subjective perspective: the player sees only the others, not her/his own avatar. It is for advanced users though, since it begins with a little installation procedure. One needs special software to visit CTRL-SPACE. If you are not familiar with software installation, visit http://www.jodi.org instead.