Munus Shih

Munus (he/they) is a Taiwanese Hakka creative technologist, artist, teacher, and organizer currently based in Brooklyn, NY.

They've developed generative design and websites for clients such as New Museum, AIGA, XR, Amazon, Okta, and New York Review of Books.

As an artist, their projects use code to explore concepts such as identity politics, solidarity economies, and decolonial teaching. Their work has been showcased at WSA (NEW INC Demo Festival), Processing Foundation 2023 Fellowship, Taiwanese Hakka Affairs Council.

A firm believer in open source, they co-developed the beginner-friendly zine-coding JavaScript library p5.genzine, and have contributed to other open-sourced projects like p5.js and mechanic.design.

As a teacher, Munus has taught classes at Parsons and Cooper on Critical Computation, Interaction Design, and Product Design. They've also given talks and workshops at SVA, Creative Coding Festival, Type Electives, Google Dev Festival, and Type@Cooper.

They co-organized the 2023 Processing Community Day Taiwan.