BIO / ABOUTRozita Sophia Fogelman is a Georgian–American conceptual artist, digital designer, and eco-art activist. Born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1964, she immigrated to Israel in 1975 and has lived in Berkeley, California since 1998. Her training spans dance and music in Georgia, graphic design and sculpture at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv–Jaffa, and advanced degrees in graphic art and multi-disciplinary media arts at California State University, East Bay, where in 2011 she pioneered a graduate program integrating multimedia, communication, and contemporary studio practice. Fogelman’s work bridges traditional and digital media — drawing, painting, photography, video installations — and experimental design. She is especially known for transforming HTML text fields into canvases, using ASCII and Unicode code to generate digital patterns, architectural models, and entire digital museums — a practice that is both innovative and eco-aware. Her work is described as abstract expressionist, minimalist, avant-garde, with emphasis on energy, color, structure, and surface. Influenced by dance, jazz, Dada, Zen, Kabbalah, Gutenberg’s movable type, science, and digital technology, she treats visual communication and sound as her first languages, forging a unique artistic philosophy at the intersection of art, design, and digital culture. Internationally exhibited, Fogelman has received multiple A’ Design Awards (notably for the Facebook ASCII Digital Design Museum and Roses & Kaleidoscope) and in 2016 was honored by the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities as a research scientist in the nexus of technology, art, and design. For her self-published volumes ASCII Graphic Glitch Art Vol. 1 (2013) and Vol. 2 (2015) were inducted into the Library of Congress collection.
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