Owen Mcateer
Digital Artist at Motus Art
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolOwen McAteer is a Madrid-based digital artist and creative coder with 11 years of experience blending minimalist aesthetics, mathematics and animation under the moniker Motus Art. He builds generative visuals and custom LED/kinetic installations using JavaScript, Processing, TouchDesigner and Python, and has exhibited work internationally in galleries from London to New York. Technically grounded from a background in web development and agency leadership, he also contributes to embedded graphics—most notably improving Espruino’s graphics library with low-level draw/fill circle implementations. Comfortable moving between art and engineering, Owen leverages recursion and pattern-based systems to reveal the “hidden beauty in numbers” while shipping practical interactive hardware and web projects.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Triple Merit BTEC National Diploma, IT Practitioner, Triple Merit BTEC National Diploma, IT Practitioner at Northern regional college1st BSc(Hons), Multimedia Computing and Design, 1st BSc(Hons), Multimedia Computing and Design at University of Ulster
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
c1710
embedded10
c1110
sys10
graphic10
javascript9
iot8
pdf-generation6
pdf6
php6
math6
translation6
soap6
dompdf6
webservice6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
espruino/Espruino
Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
The Espruino JavaScript interpreter - Official Repo
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Owen contributed primarily to the graphics library of the Espruino project. Their work included implementing the `drawCircle` and `fillCircle` functions, which enhance the graphical capabilities. They also renamed parameters and corrected function names within the graphics library to improve code clarity and functionality. This suggests a focus on developing low-level graphics rendering for the Espruino JavaScript interpreter.
javascriptinterpreterespruinojavascript-interpreter
owenmcateer/FlipDots
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Processing sketch for draw/animate and control FlipDot displays
Contributions:31 commits, 11 PRs, 38 pushes in 2 years 7 months
kineticpythonartflipdotanimations
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