Reading Sea and Sky May 6, 2010

Visitors to 'Reading Sea and Sky,' the Polynesian Navigation installation in the Exploratorium's Webcast Studio, may find themselves stepping in and out of time and place. A giant star compass representing those used in teaching traditional Polynesian navigation techniques will extend across the Studio floor, frequently submerged under video footage of waves or other footage to be projected from above. A surround-sound system of speakers will play sounds and stories recorded during a trip to Hawaii by the Exploratorium team that created the companion Never Lost website. In the meantime, video recordings will fill the Webcast Studio screens with visual poems of the islands.