About

I think structurally. Writing is a translation step, not the source of my thinking.
Rozita Sophia Fogelman — Institutional Biography
Rozita Sophia 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.
Since beginning her professional practice in 1990, Fogelman has maintained an independent, research-led design practice spanning print design, 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 structure, repetition, modularity, and rule-based visual systems. Rather than treating design as surface or decoration, her research investigates how visual form emerges from logic, process, and constraint.
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 digital public space, 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 a long-term research infrastructure, preserving born-digital visual systems that would otherwise be lost to platform obsolescence.
Fogelman’s long-term 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 text-based graphic compositions created in real time using ASCII and extended Unicode characters. These works reframe legacy code systems as sustainable, post-material tools for contemporary visual culture. Both volumes are cataloged by the Library of Congress (LCCN: 2022482046).
Her work bridges graphic design, computation, architecture, and conceptual art, contributing to broader discussions on digital minimalism, net-art preservation, sustainable design methodologies, and cultural knowledge infrastructure. Her research has been published in international conference proceedings, including the Advanced Design Conference (ADC 2025), and her work has been exhibited internationally.
Fogelman is the recipient of the Iron A’ Design Award for Reflective Conceptual Ideation, recognizing her research-driven contributions to systems-based digital design. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Canonical documentation and research materials are available for institutional and academic review upon request.
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