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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
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