Rozita Fogelman

Research Scientist / Artist / Designer
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United States (residence), Israel, United States (citizenship) °1964
research interests: architectural abstraction, archetypes, ASCII and Unicode systems, computer and code-based art, text as material, pattern formation, graphic systems, digital art
affiliation: ASCII Digital Design Museum, California State University, East Bay
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“I think structurally. Writing is a translation step, not the source of my thinking.”

Rozita Sophia Fogelman is a Georgian–Israeli–American conceptual artist, digital designer, and eco-art researcher based in Berkeley, California. Her work investigates systems-based graphic abstraction through ASCII and Unicode, architectural logic, and constraint-driven processes, treating visual culture as a form of research infrastructure where structure precedes surface.

 

Since 1990, she has maintained an independent, research-led practice spanning graphic design, drawing, painting, typography, and experimental digital media, evolving toward modular, rule-based, and process-driven methodologies.

 

In 2010, she founded the ASCII Digital Design Museum, a born-digital research archive dedicated to text-based visual systems and sustainable, minimal-computation visual research. Her long-term ASCII studies are documented in ASCII: Graphic Glitch Art Volumes 1 & 2 (2013–2015), cataloged by the Library of Congress (LCCN: 2022482046). Parallel to this work, since 2012 she has conducted daily process-based digital color studies without physical materials as an eco-sustainable research practice.

Website: https://www.rozita.com
Archive: https://www.facebook.com/Museum

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  • Amazing Patterns ▓▓█▋▋◣◢▋ (2023) author(s): Rozita Sophia Fogelman published in: Research Catalogue
    Using ASCII and Unicode 8 and 16-Bit systems, I create patterns in real-time online on my ASCII Digital Design Museum page: https://www.facebook.com/Museum/ ▓▓█▋▋◣◢▋▓▓█▋▋◣◢▋▓▓█▋▋◣◢▋▓▓█▋▋◣◢▋▓▓█▋▋◣◢▋▓▓█▋▓▓█▋▋◣◢▋▓▓█▋▋◣◢▋▓▓█▋▋◣◢▋▓▓█▋▋◣◢▋▓▓█▋▋◣◢▋▓▓█▋▓▓█▋▋◣◢▋▓▓█▋▋◣◢▋▓▓█▋▋◣◢▋▓▓█▋▋◣◢▋▓▓█▋▋◣◢▋▓▓█▋
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    Text as Material: ASCII and Unicode Pattern Systems (2026) author(s): Rozita Fogelman published in: Research Catalogue
    This exposition presents a practice-based research investigation into pattern formation using ASCII and Unicode character systems as primary visual material. Working exclusively within live text environments, the project explores how complex visual and architectural structures emerge from rule-based constraints, repetition, and minimal computational resources. Treating text not as language but as material, the work examines generative logic, duration, and modularity as foundations for sustainable, post-material visual research.
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