Shihab Mian (she-hub 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 it shapes human connection in our increasingly networked world. In his practice, Shihab looks to deconstruct this relation between technology and humanity. Examining how it has been distorted, disfigured, and transformed by rapid technological advancement. He creates deprecated programs and intentional failings, where inefficiency, glitch, or error are embraced as part of the creative process.