FTP:

Is a general open access FTP space for participan's software and project uploads/downloads. This is the second virtual space to be modelled after a 'real' building.

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Port House was the location for the first Interstices Symposium and is situated in St Germans, Cornwall, 20 minutes from the University of Plymouth. The short drive from the University to St Germans passes over the Tamar Suspension Bridge, running alongside the famous Brunel rail bridge, out into the Cornish countryside before entering the Port Eliot Estate.

The historic grounds of the Port Eliot House provided a unique landscape for the Interstices Symposium, and Port Eliot House itself provides an incomparable environment for the debate and production to be generated over the two days of the event.

Port Eliot House has a unique history, stretching back to the first landings of the Phoenician tin traders of the first millennium B.C. Rumours of Joseph of A'rimathéa visits are embedded in the surrounding hills, and the remnants of past civilisations and conquests pervade the structure of the building. Now Port Eliot House is in stasis. For millennia it has transformed and evolved. Internal walls, which were once the external (Norman) shell, mark the various evolutionary stages, like the growth rings on an Oak.

Now, with grade one listed status, it can no longer evolve. It is as if it has reached its mid-point, equidistant between the past and the future. Looking back at history, Interstices, the Architecture of Consciousness, found the perfect location to study the present and envision the future. Now remodelled as a virtual space/place, it once again becomes a port for digital traffic passing in and out of the Panopticon.

 

Interstices can be found @:

http://CAiiA-STAR.Newport.Plymouth.ac.uk