On Creating Arctic Code Vault Art, Open Source, and Minerals

It’s not every day that you get an email from a friend connecting you to a project that…honestly, sounds like something out of a James Bond movie. A vault, buried deep in a mountain on the Arctic Svalbard archipelago, housing a repository of humanity’s most important open source code, designed to last 1,000(!) years, potentially with artifacts representing the project in several major libraries around the world. They’re looking for an artist. You are an artist. What??