computer tinkerer - creative coder

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SHIHAB MIAN
[She-hub Me-In]





shihab.mian@gmail.com
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Shihab Uddin Mian (she-hub oud-deen me-in, he/him) is a Bengali-Canadian creative technologist working primarily with visual media and creative coding. He is intrigued by the emotional dimensions of technology and how they shape human connection in our increasingly networked world. Shihab theorizes that creative expression through technology can strengthen tethers between people.

Shihab creates deprecated programs and intentional failings, where inefficiency, glitch, or error are embraced as part of the creative process. His view is that the dull-edge of technology is a much more human centric position to view advancement. This dedication to the dull-edge allows Shihab to foster a sense of shared experience in his audiences—one rooted in embedding a very human beauty into our technology through fallibility and imperfection.

Based in Tkaronto, Canada, Shihab holds a BFA in New Media from Toronto Metropolitan University. He has exhibited works locally and at the Art Gallery of Guelph, InterAccess, Northern Contemporary Gallery, Gallery 1313, Tranzac Club, and internationally in the Netherlands. Shihab has participated in residencies at Music Gallery, Gibraltar Point for the Arts, & Heckhole Studios.



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CV

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Education
School for Poetic Computation
HTTPoetics
2024

Toronto Metropolitan University
BFA, New Media
Concentration in Computational Arts
2016 - 2021

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Exhibition HistoryWisp
Soft Internet Theory, Art Gallery of Guelph
Guelph, Canada
2025

cybertropism
flashDrive, InterAccess
Toronto, Canada
2024

Various Works
Long Winter 12.1, Tranzac Club
Toronto, Canada
2024

The Lights in the Sky are Stars
All The Small Things, Northern Contemporary
Toronto, Canada
2024

Various VJ Patches
MOODRING, Cinecycle + The Garrison
Toronto, Canada
2023, 2024

Various VJ Patches
OpenHDMI, Interaccess
Toronto, Canada
2023, 2024, 2025

As an extenion of my
Swash & Serif 7, Northern Contemporary
Toronto, Canada
2023

Various Works
DEMO Fest
Netherlands
2022

Wisp
Connective Tissue, Gallery 1313
Toronto, Canada
2022

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Professional ExperienceTeam Liquid
Senior Graphic Designer
2022 - 2025

DEPT Agency
Motion Designer
2021 - 2022

TheScore
Content Creator
2018 - 2021

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Grants

Career Catalyst: Project Grants Ontario Arts Council 2022

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Residencies
Artist in Residence
Heckhole Studios
Toronto, Canada
2025

Self Directed
Gibraltar Point Center for the Arts
Toronto, Canada
2025

Music Gallery Residency
918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education
Toronto, Canada
2025

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Awards

Esports Team of the Decade Esports Awards, Team Liquid 2025 “Why We Didn’t Sign Doublelift” Clios Shortlist Award, Sports Team Liquid 2024

“The World’s Largest Keyboard” Clios Bronze Award, Sports Team Liquid 2024

Esports Creative Team of the Year Esports Awards, Team Liquid 2024

Last Updated  17.09.25

WORK






cybertropism, 2025
(TouchDesigner)flashDrive, InterAccess (2025)

Generative plant creation through L-systems in TouchDesigner. Experimenting with natural growth functions married with digital sensibilities that influence the creation of these digital bouquets.

Metalabel

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Wisp, 2021
(Processing, Raspberry Pi, Shiftr, TouchDesigner)Connective Tissue, Gallery 1313 (2023)
Soft Internet Theory, Art Gallery of Guelph (2025)

Wisp is an exploration of instant messaging and its ability to transmute the emotionality of our communications. Two CRT monitors sit a distance away from each other, perched on their respective plinths. Geographically pinpointed wind data inform the speed of the message, impacting the time in which the message reaches from one monitor to the other. This deprecated program affords us the ability to give our words the gift of spontaneity, leaving the dispatch and arrival of messages at the mercy of a ubiquitous natural force.

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The Lights in the Sky are Stars (2024)
(Gelly Roll Pens, iDraw 2.0 A3 Pen Plotter, Photoshop, Illustrator)All the Small Things, Northern Contemporary (2024)

Hand drawn illustrations depicting the beauty & violence of the stars, translated through digital filters in photoshop and illustrator, outputted with the robot arm of a pen plotter marrying the digital and analog.

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as an extension of my (2023)
(iDraw 2.0 A3, Processing, Micron Pens)Swash & Serif 7, Northern Contemporary (2023)

Randomly generated fragments of notable Bengali poems are translated to English and overlaid with a juxtaposing generative asemic language. This fabricated language takes cues from modern written Bengali, and is cut off randomly amidst the printing process. Leaving the completion of the asemic lettering at the behest of the pen plotter path, this creates unique prints almost impossible to be repeated perfectly.

The angels must have their share too.

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Various A/V Works (2023 - Present)
(TouchDesigner)DEMO Festival, Netherlands (2022)
MOODRING, The Garrison, Cinecycle (2023)
Long Winter 12.1, Tranzac Club (2024)
Music Gallery Residency, 918 Bathurst (2025)

Generative audio reactive visuals programmed in TouchDesigner, performed at various venues locally & internationally.

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Future Relics (2019)
(Cinema4D, Redshift) Future Relics is an exploration of the demise of a civilization in an dystopian future. Archival data from the not yet lost, space faring colonies of humanity has been made it's way into our hands. Through data logs we are attempting to piece together what happened and what went wrong so our humanity can avoid the same fate.



© Shihab Mian 2025