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The bit uPhone is a public voicemail system, developed by the Bureau of Inverse Technology (BIT), in 2001, for networked news deployments such as the Antiterror Line, collecting live audio data of civil liberties infringements in New York after September 2001, and adapted here for Arnolfini's Port City exhibition. Uphone audio collection is designed to provide higher standards of commentary and locality than questionnaires, opinion polls or silent visitor books. Both voice and sound data will be uploaded through the system. Inarticulate and non-vocal artefacts such as live port ambience are fully welcomed, however recordings will need to be 3 seconds or more in length to appear in the database. All recorded audio files will be held in an open database on the Arnolfini website and archived.