Tiago Charters (Portuguese, b. 1973) makes algorithmically generated drawings that a pen plotter machine produces autonomously on paper. His original algorithms extract properties, textures and characteristics from photographs and 3D models, generating a set of execution instructions the machine follows to draw each piece. He holds a PhD in Physics-Mathematics, teaches at higher education level, and lives and works in Lisbon, the city where he was born.
Charters' work falls within a line of modern computational art, extending his academic and professional activity into an artistic practice. On his website he groups the drawings into galleries such as woods, images of trees, lakes and forest paths, and cityscape, images of streets, doors and windows, made between 2024 and 2026 in BIC ballpoint pen on Fabriano and Canson paper.
