Norman White (born January 7, 1938, San Antonio Texas) is a Canadian New Media artist considered to be a pioneer in the use of electronic technology and robotics in art.

[5] Originally planning to become a fisheries biologist, White changed his mind and decided to travel to places like New York City, San Francisco, London, and the Middle East during the 1960s.

[6] While living in San Francisco, he worked as an electrician at Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard, and developed a fascination for electrical switching systems.

White taught classes such as "Mechanics for Real Time Sculpture" as part of the Integrated Media Program of the Ontario College of Art & Design[9][10] A retrospective of his work and influence, called Norm’s Robots and Machine Life, with works by both White and several Canadian artists he has influenced, was shown at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario in 2004.

White's early electronic art consisted mostly of gridded installations of light bulbs controlled by contemporary-vintage digital logic circuits.

For example, White's first major electronic work, "First Tighten Up on the Drums" (1969),[11][12] generated shimmering light patterns through the unpredictable interaction of many interconnected circuits computing simple logical questions independently.

[15] Following the purchase of his first computer, a Motorola D-1, in 1976,[4] White refocused his attention on the emerging field of robotics, and during the mid- to late-1970s began making interactive machines whose internal logic expressed itself primarily through motion.