computer tinkerer - creative coder





SHIHAB MIAN
shihab.mian@gmail.com
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Shihab Mian is a computer tinkerer who works with visual media and creative coding. He is intrigued by the impact of technology on human relationships & communication in our ever-connected world. He seeks to deconstruct the way we look at the relationships between technology and humanity, and the ways in which these relationships have been disfigured and transmuted by the rapid pace of technological advancement.

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Education
School for Poetic Computation
HTTPoetics
2024

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




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




Professional ExperienceTeam Liquid
Senior Graphic Designer
2022 - 2025

DEPT Agency
Motion Designer
2021 - 2022

TheScore
Content Creator
2018 - 2021




Grants
Career Catalyst: Project Grants
Ontario Arts Council
2022





Residencies
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




Awards
“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

Esports Team of the Decade
Esports Awards, Team Liquid
2025



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




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.





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.





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.





Various A/V Works (2023 - 2025)
(TouchDesigner)
DEMO Fest, Netherlands (2022)
MOODRING, The Garrison, Cinecycle (2023)

Generative audio reactive visuals programmed in TouchDesigner, performed at 








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