Real Art in Second Life

The Phoenicia Gallerey located in Areumdeuli (Just north of the Metaverse Media Building)

By: Simon Lameth

Editor-In-Chief

On Saturday I had the chance to visit the Phoenicia Gallerey and Studio, Owned and operated by Victor Newchurch, a Real-Life Photographer. His latest work, named Heavenly Bodies, is not his first in a virtual world. His first back in the 1990's was in a world like "Myst" (Myst was a world that was supposed to be "3D"). "Heavenly Bodies" features figure and erotic photography that Newchurch (A.K.A. DJ Hacker) and his RL friend Michael Delugg took.

The exhibit is located inside a large museum style building, with multiple exhibition halls. Newchurch says that the Phoenicia Gallerey will be used for works like the current exhibition, and he is working on another gallerey that will exhibit different styles. Victor says that he is always looking for some, uh, art to put in the new gallerey, and said he doesn't mind recieving IM's. Heavenly Bodies will run for the next few months, or untill another show comes along. Either way, Newchurch said he would put some of it into a permenent collection when it is finished. All of the photography in the Gallerey is for sale for L$600.