Munus Shih

Munus Shih is a Taiwanese Minnan-Hakka creative technologist and educator building tools and spaces for anti-colonial, queer, and collective use of technology. They are a co-founder of Free99, a creative coding practice, and Co-Assembly/SpOnAcT!, a Taiwan-based design cooperative exploring data storytelling through ethnographic research and organizing. In 2023, Munus co-organized Processing Community Day Taiwan, a global event centering queer, femme, and grassroots creative tech voices from the Global South.

An Assistant Professor in the Graduate Communications Design program at Pratt Institute, Munus leads and teaches courses on the critical history of technology, critical making, cooperative networking, and open-source publishing. Their teaching draws inspiration from critical pedagogy, critical software studies, solidarity economy and intersectional feminism.

A Processing Foundation Fellow, Munus’s 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.

M.F.A. Design and Technology,
Parsons School of Design at The New School

B.S. Engineering and System Science,
National Tsing Hua University