Munus Shih
Assistant Professor Of Critical Technology at Pratt Institute
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMunus Shih is an NYC-based creative technologist and educator with eight years of experience blending design, code, and community practice across institutions like Pratt, Parsons, Cooper Union, and NEW INC. He builds tools and learning environments that center decolonial, queer, and collective approaches to technology, teaching graduate studios and mentoring thesis work while running SpOnAcT!, a Taiwan-based cooperative for data storytelling. As a practitioner he ships interactive websites and generative interfaces using p5.js, Three.js, D3, and Next.js, and contributed notable typography fixes to the widely used p5.js creative-coding library through Google Summer of Code. His work moves fluidly between academic research, open-source engineering, and client-facing production, and often surfaces in exhibitions, workshops, and cross-disciplinary collaborations.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts - MFA Design and Technology, Master of Fine Arts - MFA Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design - The New SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Engineering Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Engineering Science at National Tsing Hua University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
p5js10
typography10
artwork9
artnet9
coding9
html6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
processing/p5.js
Jun 2022 - Oct 2023
p5.js is a client-side JS platform that empowers artists, designers, students, and anyone to learn to code and express themselves creatively on the web. It is based on the core principles of Processing. Looking for p5.js 2.0? http://beta.p5js.org
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 PRs, 15 comments, 2 issues in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Munus primarily focused on fixing and improving text rendering functionalities within the p5.js library. They addressed issues related to `textWidth()` and `textToPoints()`, ensuring accurate text measurement and conversion to points. Their contributions involved modifying code within `p5.Font.js` and `attributes.js` to fix rendering issues and refine text-related behaviors. The user also collaborated with another developer on these updates.
jsp5jsjavascriptgraphicsart
munusshih/p5.genzine
Apr 2023 - May 2025
p5.(gen)Zine is a free and friendly library created by Munus Shih and Iley Cao for anyone curious about creative code and zine-making.
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 55 pushes in 2 years
graphicdesignopensource-libraryp5jszine
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