Celestial Navigations employs a day and night strategy on a major urban plaza linking SeaTac Airport’s light rail station to the surrounding city. For this project I collaborated with project architects to design a plaza layout based on navigational maps used by both airline pilots and sailors. A major focal point is that it has both day and night elements. 

A sculpture of a navigational quadrant, the piece sits on a pedestal of rustic terrazzo and features a looping, hour-long video projected to the quadrant. This work was groundbreaking in its integration of permanent video projection systems into gritty outdoor urban spaces. Site specificity in this challenging location presented a rare opportunity to engineer a robust audiovisual system and software solution to withstand weather, time and potential vandalism. Custom engineered software monitors both the operation of the system and the climate in the projector housing. 

Artist Fernanda D'Agostino