Could You Understand Me Leaving? Artist Talk

Saturday, March 14, 2026 | 2 – 3:30 PM
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Game art is decidedly not video games. With different approaches on sharing narratives and feelings, Shihab Mian, Heckhole Studio’s 2025 Emerging Artist in Residence, explores how we can use game art to flesh out artistic expression with the added layer of audience interaction. How do artists need to pare down or rethink game art ideas in order to create them as art pieces made for the gallery setting? In this artist talk, Mian breaks down the process of going from an idea for a video game, reducing the scope to fit within a short roadmap, and working toward  the intention of exhibiting as a game art piece in a professional gallery setting.

On April 3 – 4, Could You Understand Me Leaving? will be installed in the InterAccess gallery. 

The Heckhole Studio 2025 residency opportunity has been made possible by the Government of Canada and IMAA’s Digital Skills for Youth program.

About the Artist 

Shihab Mian is a Bengali-Canadian creative technologist working primarily with visual media and creative coding. He is intrigued by the emotionality of technology and how it shapes human connection. He creates deprecated programs and intentional failings, where inefficiency, glitch, and error are embraced.

About HeckHole Studio

Heckhole Studio is an experimental, multipurpose art and design studio in Toronto owned and operated by the Heckhole Artists Collective (Izzie Colpitts-Campbell & Maxwell Lander).