Yoshi Sodeoka

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Yoshi Sodeoka is a Japanese-born artist and musician based in New York City. He makes digital video art, animation, print, and music, often using video feedback and generative methods. Born in Hiroshima, he moved to New York in the 1990s to study at Pratt Institute and later became Creative Director of Word Magazine. His work is shown worldwide and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of the Moving Image in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Notable projects include Prototype #31: C404.40.40.31 (2001), an ASCII-based video of U.S. political speeches, and large public pieces like Midnight Moment on Times Square and Kinomural in Poland. He has also created work for HBO Max’s Adult Swim Festival, released NFT projects, and made a mural for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. In 2013 he started an experimental video art collective, and he also directs music videos and contributes visuals to publications.