About me
Tiago Charters lives and works in Lisbon, the city where he was born in 1973. His computational drawings are natural extensions of his academic and professional activities (PhD in Physics-Mathematics, teaching at higher education level) and his artistic practice. Tiago Charters' work falls within a line of modern computational art, which began in the 1960s, when artists started to produce computer programs specifically with the intention and objective of producing works of art, notably: Manfred Mohr, Frieder Nake, Roman Verostko, Paul Brown and Ernest Edmond, Franz Dellinger, or Vera Molnar. The use of machines to embody digital pieces emerged soon after, with artists who dedicated themselves to computational art, Harold Cohen with AAron, Ed Burtons with ROSE, and Patrick Tresset with PAUL, or researchers, where Tiago Charters' work fits in, within the approaches of Simon Colton and the Painting Fool tool, Olivier Deussen and Thomas Lindermeier with their e-David robot ensemble.
The original algorithms developed by Tiago Charters do not use AI but allow the extraction of properties, textures, and characteristics from a photograph-image using computational processes similar to those used by the human visual system, generating a set of execution instructions so that the piece can be produced autonomously by a machine embodied in a drawing with paper and pen, or painting with paint and brushes. The physically produced pieces show a rich and coherent individual style in which the artistic characteristics, strengths and weaknesses, psychological, motor, perceptual, and cognitive aspects of the artist-machine are explicit, where the history of art and contextual influences are embedded.
Abstraction is rooted in our human visual feedback system.
What can be drawn by a human-machine?
What else?
PhD in Mathematical Physics from the University of Lisbon and Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics (DM) at the Lisbon Institute of Engineering (ISEL), where he teaches MSc and BSc courses in Mathematics, Mathematical Modelling, Design and 3D Printing. His main research areas are Industrial Mathematics, 3D modeling, and additive manufacturing.
Enthusiast of free software/hardware, active in the 3D printing, RepRap maker community, and with a participatory and collaborative approach to teaching technology and science.
Founder and responsible interlocutor of the Oficina Digital at ISEL.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9246-6777
Created: 23-06-2019 [10:15]
Last updated: 12-04-2025 [22:43]
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