Arctic World Archive - Deposit Summary

A Korean Artist, Yongseok Oh, is now storing an art project focussed on time, in the Arctic World Archive. Through his art, Yongseok Oh emphasizes the crossing of the past and the present, the real and the imagined, by creating a visual collage of stills and moving images. The idea behind the Eternal Pause project was to use old still photographs and bring the moment back to life through movement. To realise the project, he sought peoplewhowanted topreserve their photos forever or want- ed to their photos to live beyond their life. He then wanted to celebrate the concept of time further by finding a way to preserve that now living moment into the future. The Arctic World Archive also became home to 10 more world cultural treasures.  To celebrate the European Year of Cultural Heritage, we asked the public to nominate and vote for items that deserve to be digitally preserved for- ever.   The winning top 10:  • Music for the Jilted Generation, The Prodigy provided by the The Prodigy  • Rembrandt’s The Night Watch  provided by the RijksmuseumMuseum

• Gutenberg Bible provided by Goethe University Frankfurt amMain • Higgs Boson scientific breakthrough provided by CERN • Photos celebrating the life of Henrik Ibsen provided by the Norwegian National Museum • Ljudbänken, a Swedish sound project provided by Audiorama and StockholmArt • Photos capturing the history of Svalbard provided by Svalbard Musuem • Architectural design of the Guggenheim Bilbao provid- ed by the Guggenheim Bilbao • Artworks celebrating Sami culture provided by the Norwegian National Museum • Photos capturing famous religious sites winners from Future of Religious Heritage photo competition  We also invited one lucky contributor to the competition to come with us and deposit the collection on behalf of the public. Our winner is Elizabeth Coelho, a Spanish Librari- an, who nominated an item of Svalbard heritage. Elizabeth joined us at the ceremony and deposited the top 10 into the Arctic World Archive on behalf of the public.