Born and raised in New York City, Joshua White studied theater and design at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University) and filmmaking at the University of Southern California. After college, he returned to New York and became interested in multi-media, especially creating multiple projector/lighting and slide shows. Soon thereafter he started designing environments for the first generation of NY discotheques. In 1967, as the idea of synesthesia between music and light was becoming part of the culture, he founded the Joshua Light Show. JLS was a group of artists who performed together, improvising multi-media projections in live concert venues. While much of their work was created for classical music and jazz, a major turning point came with the opening of Bill GrahamÕs Fillmore East on ManhattanÕs Lower East Side in the spring of 1968. The Joshua Light Show were resident artists at Fillmore East and performed live behind all the major musical artists of the time: Frank Zappa, Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, The Doors, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, and Jimi Hendrix. They also performed at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood, and other major music venues. During this same period, JLS toured Europe and created the legendary party scene for John SchlesingerÕs Midnight Cowboy. After performing at Woodstock and observing the explosive growth of audiences for popular music, White invented Joshua Television, an electronic light show using large screen video projection. Then, as network television discovered rock and roll, White segued into a full-time television directing career. For thirty years thereafter, White worked as producer and director on an eclectic range of shows such as Seinfeld, The Jerry Lewis Telethon, The Max Headroom Show, Club MTV, New York Philharmonic Young Peoples Concerts, The TV Food Network and Inside the Actors Studio. He received an Emmy nominationfor an ABC special on Cat Stevens. In addition, White continued to work with art and artists; he directed the O Superman video for Laurie Anderson, created a light show for Bette MidlerÕs film, The Rose, and staged the first rock concert ever at Radio City Music Hall. In recent years, the Joshua Light Show has received renewed attention in the art world. White collaborated with artist Gary Panter to recreate aspects of his legendary light shows at The Anthology Film Archives (2004) and with the artist Bec Stupac at The Kitchen, both in New York (2007). Joshua Light Show was featured in the exhibition, Visual Music: Synesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900, organized by the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., (2005), which also toured to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. In 2006, the Tate Museum/Liverpool included the Joshua Light Show in their Summer of Love exhibition, which toured throughout Europe and in the summer of 2008 was on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. For over 15 years, Joshua has enjoyed a collaboration with the artist Michael Smith. They met in 1988 and started working together on Mike's Kiddie Show (1990) and Doug and Mike's Adult Entertainment (1991), both of which White directed. In 1997, White and Smith created MUS-CO: 1969-1997 at the Lauren Wittels Gallery in New York. Since then, the two artists have jointly created Open House (1999), The QuinQuag Arts and Wellness Centre Touring Exhibition (2001), Take Off Your Pants! (2005), and the design for the large exhibition, Mike's World which originated at the Blanton Museum in Austin, TX and moved to The ICA Gallery in Philadelphia. In 2009, Joshua and Gary Panter collaborated on ArtSpace, a permanent installation for the Taubman Museum in Roanoke, VA. The regenerated Joshua Light Show has performed many shows. They traveled to Italy to perform in Netmage Õ08, in the summer of 2008 at Lincoln Center with the German minimalist composer Manual Gottsching. In 2009 they were the featured performers at The Media Archeology Festival in Houston, TX (2009). In 2008 Joshua and Bec Stupac collaborated on visual art for the play Farragut North presented by Atlantic Theater Company in NY (2008). The production was remounted at The Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles (2009). In the fall of 2009, The Joshua White & Gary Panter lightshow performed in New York at Roseland with the band Yo La Tengo. Joshua is married to the actress/singer Alice Playten. They live in New York.