I think structurally and conceptually. Writing is a translational step of a visual idea, not the source of my thinking.
Georgian-Israeli-American conceptual artist, digital designer, and eco-art researcher based in Berkeley, California. Her work spans fine art, ASCII and Unicode systems-based design, and architectural graphic abstraction. She holds Research Scientist recognition in Tech, Art & Design, and has been featured internationally in exhibitions, publications, and design awards across Europe and the Americas.
Fogelman is a research scientist, conceptual artist, and graphic designer whose work operates at the intersection of technology, art, and design. Her practice is grounded in systems-based graphic abstraction informed by architectural logic, visual rules, and constraint-driven processes. She approaches visual culture as a form of research infrastructure, where structure precedes surface and form emerges from logic, repetition, and time.
Since beginning her professional practice in 1990, Fogelman has maintained an independent, research-led design practice spanning visual identity systems, typography, photography, drawing, painting, and experimental digital media. Over time, her work evolved from image-based communication into a methodology centered on modularity, rule-based systems, and process-driven visual research.
In 2010, Fogelman founded the ASCII Digital Design Museum, a pioneering born-digital museum and research archive dedicated to text-based visual systems using ASCII and Unicode characters as primary visual material. Operating entirely in public digital platforms, the museum functions simultaneously as an archive, experimental laboratory, and educational resource, demonstrating how complex visual structures and spatial logic can emerge from minimal digital resources without reliance on image-heavy or energy-intensive production pipelines. The museum also serves as long-term research infrastructure for the preservation of born-digital visual systems vulnerable to platform obsolescence.
Fogelman’s long-term ASCII research culminated in the publication of ASCII: Graphic Glitch Art — Volume 1 (2013) and ASCII: Graphic Glitch Art — Volume 2 (2015), research-driven volumes documenting more than 700 pages of real-time, text-based graphic compositions created using ASCII and extended Unicode characters. These works reframe legacy code systems as sustainable, post-material tools for contemporary visual culture and are cataloged by the Library of Congress (LCCN: 2022482046).
Parallel to her ASCII research, since 2012 Fogelman has conducted daily process-based color field studies within a real-time digital painting environment, producing thousands of works without the use of physical materials. This eco-sustainable practice treats color as a temporal phenomenon—studied through repetition, redraw, and observation—allowing long-duration artistic research that would be materially and economically unsustainable in traditional studio settings.
Between 2010 and 2015, Fogelman self-published thirteen research-driven volumes documenting her early digital painting, black-and-white design systems, and text-based visual experiments. Several of these works remain in distribution, with selected titles archived by the Library of Congress. Her current focus is on transitioning from retrospective documentation toward the structured release of studies through institutional publishers, aligning her long-term research with academic, curatorial, and architectural discourse.
Her work bridges graphic design, computation, architecture, and conceptual art, contributing to discussions on digital minimalism, net-art preservation, sustainable design methodologies, and cultural knowledge infrastructure. She is the recipient of multiple international design awards and her work has been exhibited internationally. Fogelman is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Canonical documentation and research materials are available for institutional and academic review upon request.