Bio

Working under the moniker Motus Art, Owen McAteer is a creative coder and generative artist, using code to create animated digital art and interactive installations. With a minimalist style, his work focuses on movement and flow, using algorithms and mathematics to discover the hidden beauty in numbers.

Owen’s work has been exhibited internationally, including: Christie's, Phillips, Pandolfini (Italy), Hong Kong, NYC, Miami and Marfa, and he was a finalist in the Digital Art Awards 2025. 

Synopsis

Fragmented perception

"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.

Contours

"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 over time. Endlessly moving and exploring in an arbitrary direction, Contours aims to evoke a sense of ‘wandering’ and a poetic beauty that can emerge from the interplay of order and randomness.

Pulsewidth

"Pulsewidth" is an animated generative artwork, blending algorithms and mathematics, presented in a grid-like dithering style the artist calls PWM. Animated and ever changing the visuals flow and morph in realtime to an unseen set of rules and algorithms that drive the discovery of itself. Painted in a two-tone palette, often of just black & white, but not always, colour can find a way to take over and saturate the output.