The bit UPHONE is a public voicemail system, developed by the Bureau of Inverse Technolgy (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 the Sparrow Report, an environmental indicator and collective audio wake for the disappeared sparrows of East London.
(See www.bureauit.org for more).
Adapted here for Arnolfini's Port City exhibition, to supply a ready stream of visitor commentary, staff and artist interjection into the galleries.
You phone in on 0117 929 9909 to leave your messages, responses and remarks.
Calls can be anonymous, voice disguised or self-declared; please be assured that caller ID will not be employed to trace your position on the network.
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 this 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 for future generations.
Contact bitadmin@bureauit.org
