Owen Eric Wood's Momentum: a video series in four movements has been selected for the competition section of the 13th Canariasmediafest, which will take place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain from October 28 to November 1, 2008. This will be the world premiere for Momentum, which will be presented in the video art category of the festival.

     Momentum is a series of four videos that explore synesthesia — the concept that stimuli experienced by one human sense can invoke another, such as a sight invoking a smell.  In the case of these videos, relationships between sights and sounds are created by carefully manipulating and matching visuals and audio from different sources.

     These formal experiments compare the reality captured by recording technologies such as video with the reality experienced by the human senses.  Unlike the human brain, which filters information, the video camera records indiscriminately.  Where the brain grabs still images of a landscape speeding by and then processes these images to makes sense of it, the camera only captures a constant flow of blurred shapes, colours and textures.

     These videos not only mimic the human brain's desire to make sense of external stimuli (seeing images in clouds so to speak), but also raise questions about our limited perception of the physical world.  Despite the constant movement and unclear meaning, this video series creates a meditative experience that is serene not disconcerting, focused not random, organized not chaotic.


     For more information, check out the artist's Web site:

     www.owenericwood.com/momentum.html

     Or go to the XIII Canariasmediafest Web site:

     www.canariasmediafest.org

     To contact Owen Eric Wood, e-mail:

     info @ owenericwood.com