Prologue

 I am an artist in training on an small island in West Cork called Sherkin Island. The course I am doing is a B.A. in Visual Art run by the Dublin Institute of Technology. For one of our sessions we went on a trip up to see the college in Grangegorman and was introduced to John O Conner the Dean of DIT. I had seen him previous to this when he was giving a lecture at the Uileann Art Center in Skibbereen about an online game called Second Life. I will admit that I feel that I am using the wrong word when I call Second Life a game as it is not really a game- you cannot run around collecting things and shooting people for entertainment, no, it is more like a virtual world, a chat room and is always being compared to another game like it called the Sims, need I say more. After being introduced to this Second Life in Uileann our course director Glenn informed us that we would be having Second Life as a module for the rest of the year. There were alot of mixed feelings towards this, from me especially but this is why we were all there sitting in Grangegormon being introduced again to John O Conner and introduced to Our Second Life.