Gundega Strautmane is a Latvian artist and designer. She has studied textile art at the Berlin Art University, the Art Academy of Latvia, and Riga Technical University. Gundega carries out various projects in the disciplines of art and experimental design. Gundega is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of New Media Arts, at Liepāja University in Latvia. In her practice-based Ph.D. research, she is working with linguistic signs that are common in contemporary art, but rarely do authors invent their writing systems. (Gundega Strautmane has. been developing her own “Imaginary alphabets” since 2010). Thus, it emerges as a new field or genre of art, and there are no previous studies or terminology devoted to this field. (In the classification of artificial languages Albani &Buonorroti 1994, are mentioning artificial languages in the field of visual arts. They use the term Imaginary alphabet). To define the practice, Strautmane proposes a new term—codification art.

In her early art projects, Gundega made use of the Braille code and created works that were perceivable for both viewers with good eyesight and also visually impaired people.
Though works created by Gundega Strautmane may be considered as modernization of traditions, the ornament in them appeared peculiarly, essentially differing from the traditions. The artist employed Braille and transcribed in it phrases from Christian prayers, writing these phrases with the help of tangible beads. These clusters of bead signs were arranged in a symmetrical rhythm, repeating the prayer text and creating an impressive decorative ornament. In 2017, Gundega Strautmane has been working with “Rezekne city sounds”. She recorded sounds in the city and later in a silkscreen technique printed sound visualizations on canvas. Another project in 2010, was exhibited in the Latvian Contemporary Art center where artist in cooperation with Valdis Krebs (Founder & Chief Scientist at Orgnet LLC, an organizational consultant, data scientist, and the developer of network analysis software) carried out a textile project based on network visualizations by Valdis Krebs.