Munus Shih
Adjunct Instructor
Munus Shih is a Taiwanese Hakka designer, coder, and organizer based in NYC who is passionate about bringing more critical and diverse perspectives to teaching code. Munus was a fellow for the Processing Foundation, where they contributed to open-source projects and helped develop decolonial teaching resources. As an organizer, Munus co-founded SpOnAcT!, a collective and garden for gender and neuro queer folks in Taiwan. They are also a co-founder of Duty Free, a design collective that explores the liminal space of art, code, and the solidarity economy. Currently, Duty Free is a member of NEW INC, an art and technology incubator led by the New Museum. Munus’s practice explores critical code, queer studies, and community building and has been recognized through fellowships, festivals, and conferences, including Creative Coding Taiwan, the 2023 Open Source Art Contributor Conference, and IBM Quantum Design. Munus received their M.F.A. in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design. They currently work as a Creative Technologist at Athletics, and teach at The New School and Cooper Union.