Ctrl + Shift + Del reclaims the video game as a site of care and resistance

Ctrl + Shift + Del is a command to delete. But what if it became a command to reset?The exhibition explores this question through speculative video games that reclaim digital spaces as sites of care, memory, and resistance. Three artistic positions offer distinct responses to overlapping crises—occupation, imperialist violence, capitalism, overtourism, climate collapse—not by escaping them, but by reprogramming their structures. What connects the works is an understanding of land not only as soil or territory, but as a collective experience of place. From this starting point, the artists use video games to connect the individual and the societal through sanctuaries, simulations, and archives. Sanctuaries emerge as virtual spaces where queer BIPOC communities share pain, joy, and grief. Simulations advocate for the sonic self-determination of occupied communities. Archives preserve ancestral practices of land care and rural knowledge—traditions threatened by standardizati