Hyde Park Visual History Project – Project Premiere :: October 17, 2009; 8:00 – 11:00 pm :: Hyde Park Drive In – Route 9 – Hyde Park, NY.

The Hyde Park Visual History Project, developed by artist Matthew Slaats, is a community centered artistic project that engages the elaborate evolution of the local landscape and its inhabitants through images and sound.

Conceived as a public art installation, the Hyde Park Visual History Project serves as a dynamic meeting point for the community, the arts, and the history of Hyde Park, New York. By gathering visual and auditory material from local residents, the project uses a community centered approach to understanding the complexity of context in America. Then further exploring these intricacies through the direct integration of the media into the landscape, using motion capture software, projection and speakers to allow the images, sound, audience and the environment to dynamically converse with each other. This interaction signifies the impact that people have on place and that a place can have on people.