Boom Pearls is a series of art works curated in the populated 3D world Second Life. The invited artists get free access to work within the given frame of the project. This means a world where the users can build, write, script and experience themselves through a 3D universe build by the users. It is central to Second Life, that the local currency can be changed to other valuta. The social aspect is not to protect the users from Real Life, but to make it possible to extend the value of online properties.

Users mundane actions make it clear that it is not enough to understand the persistent worlds as games or not games. When the emergence of new and less skilled users in the world can be appropriated, the perception of this media and the world is not only dominated by the producer of SL. Boom Pearls presents artists who can make art if they know how to use a script language they have seen before or not. The participating artists are: Hilarius Hofstede, Tommy Støckel, Gillian Grantsaan, Antonia Low, Lars Pellarin, Pernille With Madsen, Gitte Broeng, and Seimi Nørregård. Boom Pearls run from the summer 2007 and two years on. There will be links between BoomPearls in Second Life and boompearls.com with documentation.

Visit Boom Pearls within Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Phyllira/174/177/84