Owen McAteer is Motus Art

Installations, sculptures and interactive art


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


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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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