About me
Owen McAteer (Motus Art) is a visual artist, creating digital art and interactive installations
photo by: William Keele
Hello, my name is Owen McAteer working under the moniker Motus Art. I am a creative coder and generative artist. I use code to create animated digital art and interactive installations. With a minimalist style, my work focuses on movement and flow using algorithms and mathematics to discover the hidden beauty in numbers.
I have had my work shown in exhibitions and galleries around the world including; London, New York, Woodstock GA, Madrid and Germany. I am also a returning Art Blocks artist.
Exhibitions
- Oct 2024 | ¿Sueñan las plants? | Newture | Bime Bilbao [video]
- Sept 2024 | Food Design Festival '24 | Matadero, Madrid [more] [link] [video]
- Sept 2024 | Biophony.Art collective | Ars Electronica [link]
- Jun 2024 | Onchain Summer Solstice | Brooklyn, NY [video]
- Summer 2024 | Raisa Maudit | Una Ascención en espiral, mirar atrás desde el fin | Barcelona, La Virreina Centre [link] [pic]
- Mar 2024 | Claudia Paredes | Neo Coolers | WetDreams CentroCentro Palacio de Cibeles [pics] [link]
- Jan 2024 | Medialab Matadero | Open LAB#03 Mentes Sintéticas [link] [interview]
Showings- Medialab Matadero | Open LAB#03 Mentes Sintéticas: February 2024
- UAAD: Jukebox of Dissonance | October 20 | 404 Broadway, 2nd FL, New York, NY
- Watch now (pwd:Creatures)
- Jan 2024 | Geist, This is Loop | Winter Light, Canary Wharf, London [pics] [video] [press: 1 / 2 / 3 ]
- Jul 2023 | NFT Show Europe [pics] [video] [video]
- Feb 2023 | Art & Techno (Main artist) [video] [show]
- Nov 2022 | Art & Techno [pics] [show]
- Jun 2022 | Galerie Schillerstraße 30, Kassel, Germany [pics] [pics]
- Apr 2022 | Coded Realities | Woodstock Arts, GA US [link] [pics]
- Apr 2022 | #Genuary2022 exhibition | Symbiocene Gallery [link]
- Jun 2020 | TinyCode MMMAD | MediaLab Prado Madrid [video]
- Nov 2020 | Creative Code Festival | Lightbox NYC [link] [link]
- Dec 2019 | #ProgramaLaPlaza | MediaLab Prado Madrid [link]
Written / Spoken works
- ARTICLE | Make Magazine | Volume 85: FlipDot displays [read]
- ARTICLE | HackSpace Mag | Issue 65: FlipDot Tetris [read]
- BOOK | Processing Community Catalog | ProgramaLaPlaza (page.495) [read]
- PODCAST | Minters & Makers Podcast [listen]
- PODCAST | Collector's Corner | eclipse.art launch and my piece Linearity [listen]
- PODCAST | 𝘼𝘾𝘾𝘼©. | The Artists behind Long Form Generative Art [listen]
- PODCAST | Art Blocks: Artists & collectors [listen]
Client Work
Throughout my artistic career, I've worked with many brands and design agencies, including;
- Google, Coca-Cola, NTT-Data, McClelland Gallery, SMPD, FCF, Wicked Lasers
Play, open-source, teachings
- Tool | FlipDot (Processing) [code]
- Tutorial | TouchDesigner interactive 3D grid [tutorial]
- Hardware | FlipDigit (Processing) [code] [video]
- Tutorial | Blender to Laser animations [tutorial]
- Hardware | Project Aureole [link]
- Hardware | tixy.land LED display [code]
- LaserArt for LaserCube [video] [LaserOS]
- Tool: Art-Net LED Matrix [tool]
- Hardware | Crypto 7-segment tracker [link]
- Hardware | Gyroscope water sim on FlipDot display [video]
- Rhodonea curve with Laser [video]
- Tool: JS BPM Tapper [code]
- Games for Espruino microcontroller [tetris] [snake]
- Tool: 2-Bit Video Processor [code]
- Tool: Cast <canvas> to an LED Matrix [code]