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Atila-Robert Gomboș is the co-founder and CEO of Jasmine Directory (since 2009) and, since May 2024, IT Manager, IT Procurement Specialist and CISO at Printopia S.R.L., an IT integrator in Timișoara. His work at Jasmine Directory includes the editorial review of submissions. From 2002 to 2011 he worked as a web application programmer at S.C. WebWorld S.R.L. (multimedia content creation, programming and web design). He holds a doctorate in Visual Arts from the West University of Timișoara (Doctoral School of Arts; public defence on 21 June 2024; title conferred by Order of the Minister of Education no. 7692 of 6 December 2024, with the distinction Magna Cum Laude), after a BA (2014–2017) and a Master’s degree (2017–2019) in Visual Arts at the same university and a Bachelor’s degree from Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (1998–2003). In 2021 he was admitted as a trainee member of the Union of Visual Artists of Romania (UAP), Timișoara branch, and was a member of the Center for Contemporary Visual Arts Creation (CCAVC) at the Faculty of Arts and Design, UVT. He is the editor of the online journal “Artă și Artiști Vizuali” (Art and Visual Artists; ISSN 2734-6196).

Doctoral thesis:
Black – Aesthetic Dimension in Contemporary Painting and Photography (Negrul – dimensiune estetică în pictura și fotografia contemporană)
(Doctor in Visual Arts, West University of Timișoara; defended on 21 June 2024). DOI:
10.5281/zenodo.20514341 – ORCID.

Social profiles: LinkedIn – Credly

Digital Competence

Programming tools (JS, JAVA, Laravel and more); UNIX/Linux, Windows, SQL Server, MySQL, Hibernate.

Adobe suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere); 2D/3D modelling software (AutoCAD, SolidWorks); educational technologies (Google Classroom Suite, Zoom, Smart Board); Microsoft Office Package; team-oriented work tools.

Affiliations and Leadership Roles

In 2021 I was a member of the Center for Contemporary Visual Arts Creation (CCAVC) at the Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara, and I was admitted as a trainee member of the Union of Visual Artists of Romania, Timișoara branch.

Since 2009 I have been the co-founder and CEO of Jasmine Directory, where my work includes the editorial review of submissions. Since May 2024 I have been IT Manager, IT Procurement Specialist and CISO at Printopia S.R.L., an IT integrator in Timișoara.

Affiliations

I am the editor of the online journal “Artă și Artiști Vizuali” (Art and Visual Artists; ISSN: 2734-6196).

Since 2012 I have been a volunteer editor of the English Wikipedia (user: Robertgombos); between 2011 and 2017 I was a volunteer editor of DMOZ (Open Directory Project).

Articles and book chapters:

1. GOMBOȘ, Atila (2020) “Ontologia operei de artă în contemporaneitate și contextul său interdisciplinar” [The ontology of the work of art in contemporaneity and its interdisciplinary context], in Caiete de Arte și Design, Eurostampa Publishing House, no. 8/2020, pp. 42-45, ISSN 2393-042X;
2. GOMBOȘ, Atila (2021) “Niveluri perceptive ale negrului în arta contemporană” [Perceptual levels of black in contemporary art], in Dana Percec (ed.), Tendințe actuale în științele umaniste [Current trends in the humanities], vol. I, West University of Timișoara Publishing House, Timișoara, 2021, pp. 221-228, ISBN 978-973-125-848-5;
3. GOMBOȘ, Atila (2021) “Dincolo de negru” [Beyond Black], in 4 Foi de Artă, no. 33, September 2021, pp. 5, 7 (article and illustrations), ISSN 2668-0238, ISSN-L 2668-0238;
4. GOMBOȘ, Atila (2021) “Analiză critică a evoluției negrului în artele plastice” [A critical analysis of the evolution of black in the visual arts], in RevArt, Eurostampa Publishing House, vol. 38, no. 3/2021, pp. 154-164, ISSN 1841-1169. (Article at publisher)
5. GOMBOȘ, Atila (2021) “Estetica negrului: între percepție și expresie artistică” [The aesthetics of black: between perception and artistic expression], in Caiete de Arte și Design, no. 9/2021, pp. 164-173, ISSN 2393-042X;
6. GOMBOȘ, Atila (2022) “Despre negru în artele vizuale: o foarte scurtă introducere” [On black in the visual arts: a very short introduction], in EM Art, Year 3, no. 13, January 2022, pp. 22-25, ISSN 2734-7923.