Motus Art
Owen McAteer
Generative artist & creative coder
Working under the moniker Motus Art, Owen McAteer is a multidisciplinary digital artist from Ireland, based in Madrid. With a minimalist style, his work focuses on movement and flow to discover the hidden beauty in numbers.
Owen's work has been exhibited internationally, including: Christie's, Phillips, Hong Kong, Pandolfini Casa d'Aste(Italy), Miami, HOFA, Marfa and more. His digital work can be found at Art Blocks and Gamma.io
Represented by House of Fine Art (HOFA); UK, US, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and Hong Kong.
Gamma.io May 20th 2025
"Contours" is a generative artwork of an abstract and unknown place, drawn in the style of a colourful and animated topographical map. The unknown landscape changes and evolves overtime. Endlessly moving and exploring in an arbitrary direction, I aim to evoke a sense of wandering and a poetic beauty that can emerge from the interplay of order and randomness.
Art Blocks Studio Jun 2024
"Fragmented perception" is an animated artwork born from a serendipitous coding error, transforming an unintended mistake into a piece of unexpected beauty. The artwork features an ordered grid of circles, fragmented in a disordered yet rhythmic dance that explores the balance between clarity and chaos.
Art Blocks Aug 2022
Balletic, a grid of rotating blocks move together in a mathematically choreographed dance to reveal hidden patterns, shapes and flowing figures.
Exploring soft fluid motion in a hard fixed grid of blocks to a two-tone minimalist design, the piece comes to life in dance, conducted by the combination of several algorithms, easing curves and timing modifiers all working together. More about Balletic
Pandolfini Casa d'Aste Digital art spring 1-1 auction | Apr 2024
"Lightwaves" is a 2024 digital animation coded in JavaScript, showcasing a mesmerizing wave of a million light points. This artwork symbolizes unity and impermanence through its ever-changing light patterns, blending art with mathematics.
Art Blocks Apr 2023
ilumz is a collaborative generative art project exploring the balance between mathematics and spontaneous IRL artistry I created with British abstract artist Emily Jackson (Wolffia Inc.) in 2023.
Collaborators working in two opposing mediums create a unique expression of art that neither could create alone. Merging IRL artistic techniques with algorithmic generative coding. Holding focus on creations that are varied, organic and feature human characteristics of spontaneous artwork. Learn more about ilumz
Eclipse.art / gen.art Apr 2023
A generative art project exploring the beauty within lines, grids, patterns and mathematics. Set on a rich textured backdrop, accompanied by contrasting coloured lines and shapes. More about Linearity
fx(hash) Feb 2023
An expanse on my piece for Genuary 2023 "Asemic". Asemic writing is a visual form of expression that combines elements of writing and art. It transcends traditional linguistic boundaries, using fluid lines, shapes, and curves to suggest meaning and emotion.
