Hyde Park Visual History Project

On October 17th from 8 - 11pm the Hyde Park Visual History Project will premier a dynamic display of images and audio at the Hyde Park Drive In Theatre. The project, supported by the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Dutchess County Art Council, and the Hudson Fulton Champlain Quadricentennial, is the culmination of two years of work by artist Matthew Slaats. This interactive installation serves as a meeting point for the community, arts and history of Hyde Park, New York.

For this event the immense screen of the drive in will be filled with flashes of light that show vibrant images of this Hudson River town. The images will shift between those displaying people and places to dramatically connect the two. The audience, using software designed for the project, will dynamically control the images through their movements around the site.

All visual material will be supported by a site-specific soundscape developed specifically for the project. Using radio transmission and the car radios of those attending the event, the audio will create moments of resonance throughout the drive in. The audience will be asked to walk through the landscape to hear oral histories, interviews and field recordings taken in Hyde Park over the last two years.

The Hyde Park Visual History Project is a community‐centered artistic project that engages the elaborate evolution of the local landscape and its inhabitants through images and sound. The project builds an understanding of place through donated images, home movies, film, and audio. Then seeing that media resituated back into the landscape.

Further information please visit http://thehydeparkproject.com.

For more information please contact the artist -

Matthew Slaats
845.889.8181
[email protected].