Galeria Digital do Porto is a circuit of digital public art that invites people to rediscover the city of Porto (PT), by engaging with artistic projects. Challenging artists, residents and visitors to reflect on the city through the intersection of its material presence and the processes of digitalisation and dematerialisation, this is a project of the Municipality of Porto, coordinated by Porto Digital and curated by Galeria Municipal do Porto. By bringing together art, technology and territory, this initiative aims to act as a critical accelerator of urban dynamics, sparking discourse on the present and future of the city to foster collective reflection on contemporary public space.
It opens on Saturday, 19 July at 6 pm, with the participation of Diana Policarpo, who presents ‘Cora’, an experimental soundscape based on the mapping of the Douro Carboniferous Basin, with a special focus on São Pedro da Cova. This territory, marked by mining extraction, environmental contamination and stories of resistance, reveals itself as an acoustic field populated by underground voices, bearers of invisible narratives. The composition is born from a score devised from this mapping — a visual and geological score that guides the rhythms, textures and layers of the piece. The territory is thus transformed into a vibrant body, whose ecological scars and human echoes are translated into the sonic plane.