Jozef Jankovič

Artist. After becoming "unwanted" by communist regime in Slovakia he quit creating sculptures and in 1972 started to cooperate with computer scientist Imrich Bertók and produced lithographies and serigraphies based on computer drawings. His first computer works were manually digitized and transformed, multiplied and morphed by the computer program, which controlled HP and Calcomp plotters. 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:
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. pg. 132-135