Yoshi Sodeoka is a Japanese-born artist and musician who has been producing art projects since the early 1990s. In 1989 he moved to New York City to study art and design at the

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Shift, Japan-based international online magazine features creative culture. , Yoshi Sodeoka, Retrieved January 31, 2011. His digital artwork has been featured on numerous DVDs, film festivals, art galleries, and in exhibitions at the

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's Holiday Light Shows at the

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and OFFF Festival in Spain. In addition, Sodeoka lectured widely on the topic of digital art and design and has juried design awards for

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, the Art Director's Club, the

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, the Society of Publication Designers and the .MOV Festival held by Shift Japan. He was a contributing writer for Artbyte magazine in which he wrote a bi-monthly column about underground digital culture. Prior to that, he was the founding art director of

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, one of the Web's oldest and most influential ezines, which launched in 1995. Sodeoka's work is in the permanent collections of New York's

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as well as the

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References

External links

Yoshi Sodeoka's portfolio site
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Pratt Institute alumni People from Hiroshima Prefecture Japanese emigrants to the United States {{US-artist-stub