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The Public Gallery for Digital Arts project began in 2005 with the aim of questioning the concept of art galleries and museum spaces and integrating it into the urban landscape. The intention was to act with an awareness of \"the need to extend artistic discourse to the *Polis*,\" following the \"global village\" concept fostered by online technologies. The use of these technologies drives the project's development by enabling active participation from artists across different countries and continents. From the outset, a central idea was that such remote artistic contributions should materialize within the urban environment\u2014specifically via billboards\u2014thereby making visible the intimate relationship between the artwork and the city's everyday space.<\/p>

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Once the design of the street furniture built exclusively for the event had been decided, it became absolutely necessary for the remote artistic interventions to take the form of digital files that would subsequently allow for their manipulation and printing.<\/p>

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Based on these premises, the initial phase of this artistic project\u2014centered on remote artistic participation (from 2005 to 2007)\u2014involved inviting various international artists to submit their work as digital productions. Upon receipt, these digital files were manipulated and printed on materials that allowed them to be mounted on billboards located along the town's pedestrian route.<\/p>

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Subsequently, in 2008, this artistic project of public intervention transitioned to new virtual media, namely the metaverse, using the Second Life digital platform. However, we can easily recognize in this transition of resources and platforms that the initial premises of the Public Gallery for Digital Arts project were maintained, such as those linked to the concept of urban exhibition space and the remote artistic participation enhanced by technologies resulting from globalization.<\/p>

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Below, we present two texts published in the catalogs of the Vila Nova de Cerveira International Biennial (2005\/2007), as well as a text regarding the presentation of the project developed for the Second Life platform\u2014which has now been established through the virtual creation of the V5 Foundation \u2013 Portuguese Cultural Center.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t