ABOUT ME...

  Josephine Pu-Sheng Wang is a Los Angeles-based Taiwanese lighting designer/artist. She’s collaborated with theater directors Jessica Hannah, Larry Biederman, Jack Stehlin, Matthew Leavitt; playwright Virginia Grise; artists James Franco, Edgar Arceneaux, Andrew Schneider, Nikita Gale; choreographer Heidi Duckler, composer/producer Ajay Kapur, Madeline Falcone, and vocalist Dorian Holley. Presented artwork in Cuba and designed at Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her interactive lighting project SPECTRUM won LIT Lighting Design Awards 2018.
  Josephine develops unconventional design techniques for performances, installations and everything in between, embraces possibilities of new technology used in multimedia designs, dedicates to arts bridging gaps between classes and races, speaking social justice and human rights. She has a BS in Computer Science from NCU, Taiwan, and a BFA in Theatre Lighting Design from CalArts.
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    王菩生（Josephine Pu-Sheng Wang），出生於台灣台北，現在美國洛杉磯發展的舞台燈光設計師及燈光藝術家。合作過的劇場導演包含Jessica Hannah (Our Iliad, 2017, CalArts, California), Larry Biederman (Rhinoceros, 2019, CSUN, California), Jack Stehlin (Boxing Lessons, 2019, The New American Theater, California), Matthew Leavitt (Hamlet, 2019, The New American Theater, California)；劇作家Virginia Grise (Their Dogs Came With Them, 2019, Arizona)；表演藝術家James Franco (Glass Menagerie, 2015, CalArts, California), 實驗性裝置藝術家Edgar Arceneaux (Until, Until, Until…, 2018, Brown University, Rhode Island), 燈光助理Obie Award得主、多媒體表演藝術家Andrew Schneider (Nervous/System, 2018, Lumberyard, New York)；場域特定舞蹈家Heidi Duckler (FishEyes, 2016, California)；編曲家及數位藝術展演製作人Ajay Kapur和Madeline Falcone (CalArts Expo, 2018/Machines and Strings, 2018, REDCAT, California)；歌手Dorian Holley（What’s Going On - Tribute to Marvin Gaye, 2019, Ebony Rep Theater, California）。曾在2017春天前往古巴哈瓦那的 Fabrica de Arte Cubano 進行藝術交流及展演（El Acercamiento），同年夏天，和洛杉磯的戲劇製作 THE END, THE END, THE END…（實驗性劇場導演Scarlett Kim）一同前往蘇格蘭愛丁堡藝穗節。2018年，個人創作的燈光藝術SPECTRUM獲得LIT Lighting Design Awards互動式燈光創作獎。
    王菩生研發可運用在表演藝術、裝置藝術、和介於兩者之間的非傳統設計手法，擁抱新興科技運用在多媒體設計的可能性，且投身於為階級和種族間建立橋樑、談論人權與社會正義的藝術。她擁有台灣國立中央大學資訊工程學士，和美國加州藝術學院（California Institute of the Arts）劇場燈光設計藝術學士。