Munus Shih

Munus Shih (he/they) is a Taiwanese Minnan-Hakka creative coder and designer in Brooklyn, NY. (Lenapehoking) Their work moves across code, design, and community-building, with a focus on exploring identity, decoloniality, and solidarity through digital tool-making.

Munus operates Free99, a NYC based creative coding practice designing and developing experiences that transcend the web. They also co-founded Co-Assembly/SpOnAcT!, a Taiwan-based co-op exploring critical data storytelling through research and organizing. Previously, Munus has worked at Athletics and Design Systems International for clients including the New Museum, AIGA, Samsung, Amazon, NYU and the New York Review of Books.

Their work, including p5.zine, Syllabus (Subject to Change), and Duty Free, has been exhibited and supported by NEW INC x New Museum DEMO Festival, the Taiwanese Hakka Affairs Council, and the Open Source Art Contributors Conference. They have presented talks and workshops at institutions such as NYU ITP, Cooper Union, SVA, Type@Cooper, Typographics, The Dalton School, Type Electives, and Google Developer Group DevFest. A Processing Foundation Fellow, Munus holds an M.F.A. from Parsons School of Design and teaches at Pratt Institute as an Assistant Professor of Critical Technology.

Upcoming Events

  • Applications of Interactive Technology Talk

    Oct 2025

    Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)

Talk

Teaching

Workshop

Exhibition

  • Ghosts in the Feedback Loop Exhibition

    Oct 2025

    Underground Art and Design x New Art City (Virtual)
  • Embodied Algorithms / Collective Mechanics Exhibition

    Jun 2025

    DEMO Festival
  • Our Memories: Local Hakka Memorial Exhibition

    Dec 2024

    Taipei Hakka Council
  • Scaling Utopia Exhibition

    Jun 2024

    DEMO Festival
  • Entropy Exhibition

    May 2023

    Parsons School of Design
  • Plenty More: Exploring Design & Possibilities Exhibition

    Nov 2022

    Huashan 1914 Creative Park
  • Where We Live Exhibition

    May 2020

    National Tsing Hua University Library
  • Collaborative Installation: Immersive Improvisation in Interactive Art Exhibition

    Jan 2020

    EUR ArTeC - Université Paris 8

Featured

Organizing

  • Co-op Bookclub with Co-Assembly organizing

    Jul 2025

    (Remote) Taiwan
  • Code as Acts: Processing Community Day Taiwan with SpOnAcT! organizing

    Sep 2023

    (Remote) Taiwan
  • Speculation + Art & Design + Science & Technology Studies Book Club organizing

    Sep 2021

    "Posthuman Art Collective" at National Tsing Hua University
  • Free Friday Design Forum organizing

    2020 - 2021

    National Tsing Hua University
  • Tzaiwu Graphic Design Club organizing

    2018 - 2020

    National Tsing Hua University