Jozef Jankovič

Born 1937. Artist. After becoming "unwanted" by communist regime in Slovakia he quit creating sculptures and in 1972 started to cooperate with SAV's computer scientist Imrich Bertók and produced lithographies and serigraphies based on computer drawings. Their first computer works were manually digitized and transformed, multiplied and morphed by the computer program, which controlled HP and Calcomp plotters. There were only two computers in SAV and upon order from an institution, it was given the access for 1-2 hours a week. Bertók was basically algorithmizating Jankovič's rationalizations (process later named as "controlled serendipity"). In 1985 exhibited at SIGGRAPH. In 1987 returned to sculpture.

Works:
Ikarus (1974), Movement in a circle (1974) - transformation of figure into abstract image.
Window (1984), Squash (1985) - dynamics of line in a given frame.
Neverending line (1985) - applied random number generator.

Made also decoration for facade of Výpočtové stredisko dopravy in Bratislava, 1971-1974.

Articles:
Marián Jaslovský: Riadené vyhľadávanie krásna. Interview with Imrich Bertók. http://www.inzine.sk/article.asp?art=3143 (Slovak).
Bertók, I., Jankovič, J.: A Collaborative Investigation of the Line: Interactive Computer- Aided Drawings, Leonardo, 19, No.1, 1986, pp. 27-30.
Hrabušický, A.: Jozef Jankovič. Tvorba z rokov 1958-1997.
J. Jankovič. Catalogue. Slovak National Gallery. 1997.
Bertók, I., Janoušek, I.: Počítače a umenie. pp. 132-135.