Yesterday i was shortly interviewed in the danish radioprogram kulturnyt. In relation to the support my project Boom Pearls has been granted by the danish art council, to discuss art in Second Life, Tore Leifer asked me how i think SL is suitable to make art in today.
SL was thought dead by many after it had a big burst in the media starting two years ago. Its difficult for institutions like museums to be flexible and do projects initiated on their own. A lot of people still make art in there. Some are integrated as inhabitants while others more use it as a tool and tend to think more about how the project may work out in Real Life. Projects like New Berlin create a model of Berlin in 1:1. The last project in Boom Pearls by Tommy Støckel was an installation consisting of a large number of objects made by the inhabitants. This way he states that he does not make art in SL based on RL. While Boom Pearls invites artists new in SL it would be interesting to discus this starting point with others.