Owen McAteer is Motus Art

Installations, sculptures and interactive art


Box of Digits (2026)

A series of kinetic displays comprising 14x4 digits, housed in a black-dyed Oak frame, each one unique with its own animations and personality. It is an exploration of how the most basic building blocks of technology can be used to mimic the unpredictable, fluid flow of the natural world.

Currently showing at MADART, NIO House Amsterdam


Aqueduct (2025)

Aqueduct is a kinetic display that reimagines nature digitally. Four flip-dot displays, arranged diagonally, create a cascade. Driven by a real-time fluid simulation, depicting water gracefully falling from one display to the next. This piece explores the beauty of water’s movement, creating a captivating and ever-changing visual experience.

Currently showing at Futura Art Gallery


Geist (2024)

video credits: This is Loop

Geist: Winner CODA awards experiential art In a collaboration with This is Loop I was tasked to program interactive visuals and help build Geist. The concept for the piece is founded in particle physics, in particular the hunt for the elusive Neutrino.

We collected over 5,500 images from the Super Kamiokande Neutrino detector in Japan and data provided by the Department of Physics Oxford that we then used to create the animations and ‘Neutrino Flavour’ probability selection process when someone interacts with the sculpture.

Concept, Design, Fabrication: This is Loop
Programming & visuals: Owen McAteer
Audio & Virtual instruments: Dan Bibby


Seiche (2024)

Seiche is an interactive artwork inspired by the serene waters of Biscayne Bay. The piece represents the delicate balance of nature, where calm surfaces can be disrupted by external forces. As viewers interact with the artwork, they become the external force, disrupting the calm and creating dynamic patterns of motion. This interplay between stillness and movement mirrors the delicate balance of nature and the impact of human intervention on ecosystems.

Enquire: House of Fine Art


Pixelated hands (2022)

This interactive kinetic piece mixes the line between art and audience, allowing viewers to control and shape the artwork with their hands. Through this unique physical display, their movements are mirrored in real time, creating a captivating visual experience. This ultra-low resolution yet alive screen, offers a glimpse into how the machine perceives and interprets the viewer's hand, blurring the understanding between humans and technology and who is in control.

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Liquid Numbers (2024)

video credits: Angel Galán

Two kinetic displays created for the Madrid Food Design Fest '24, held in El Matadero.

With an approximate daily consumption of 543,959,000 litres and a flow rate of 6,295 litres per second, we aimed to underscore the substantial daily water usage of Madrid City.

In collaboration with Angel Galán