Works

Sound

Without Your Memories, Are You Still You?

2026

A sound work meditating on identity, memory, and what remains when recollection fades.

Audio Walk

This Was Our Neighbourhood

2024

A sonic portrait of place and community — tracing the traces left behind by those who lived, loved, and moved on.

Audio Walk

MacKay Church

2020

A site-specific audio walk responding to the resonant architecture and layered histories of MacKay Church.

Concept Album

Thing of Shapes to Come

2018

A concept album mapping imagined futures through sound — a sonic cartography of possible worlds drawing on electronic composition, field recordings, and spatial audio.

Audio Walk

Strathroy Stories

2017

An immersive, spatialized locative sound piece exploring memory, place, and identity through adolescent recollections of a small Ontario town.

Augmented Reality

Hiraeth

2024

An AR work drawing on the Welsh concept of hiraeth — a longing for something lost, or perhaps never possessed — exploring belonging, displacement, and home.

Augmented Reality

Dogs of Durand

2021

A location-based AR experience set in Hamilton's Durand neighbourhood — a layered encounter between past and present, stranger and place.

Augmented Reality

Can You Hear What I See?

2021

An immersive AR work exploring the intersection of visual and sonic perception — asking what it means to truly listen to what we see.

Hypermedia Narrative

FRACTALIZE 1: I've Loved You from Afar

2017

A hypermedia fiction project delivering narrative fractals through gallery exhibits, performances, AR, 360° video, sound art, and social media.

Augmented Reality Walk

The Chez

2015

Chez Moi: lesbian bar stories from before you were born. A locative AR experience created for World Pride 2014, reclaiming queer space and history.

Augmented Reality

MOTHER|HOME|HEAVEN

2014

A magic-mirror AR installation overlaying 3D models, video, poetic spoken word, and soundscape onto nineteenth-century domestic objects.

Augmented Reality

Vessels of Memory

2013

An AR work positioning real-world objects as living archival material — conjuring hidden narratives held within everyday things.

Intermedia Performance

Bureau of Emotional Statistics

2026

A participatory intermedia performance collecting, cataloguing, and presenting the emotional data of everyday life — part archive, part intervention, part absurdist bureaucracy.

Intermedia Performance

Sounding Spaces

2020–Present

An ongoing series of intermedia performances and site-specific sound interventions exploring how sound shapes our experience of space, memory, and community.

Documentary Media

African Nova Scotian Climate Justice

2025

A documentary media project — 12-part educational video series, podcast series, and feature documentary — addressing African Nova Scotian history, resilience, climate preparedness, and mental health.

Concept Album

The Curiosity Sessions

2023

A concept album born from a spirit of open inquiry — sonic experiments and collaborative sessions exploring the edges of genre, technology, and human curiosity.

XR Installation

HPO Intimate & Immersive

2019

An XR installation reimagining the orchestral experience with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra — through spatial staging, technology, and close audience proximity.

VR Documentary

Ohneganos: Water is Life

2023

As Immersive Storytelling Producer — a VR project interweaving the Haudenosaunee creation story with contemporary struggles for clean water on Indigenous reserves.

Intermedia Performance

7 Days Before Christmas at the End of the World

2010

An intermedia performance weaving together narrative, sound, and image in a meditation on endings, waiting, and the strange quiet of anticipation.

About

Composer, media artist, educator, and producer working at the intersection of imagination, digital media, and human experience.

Tony Vieira's practice spans augmented reality, virtual reality, location-based sound, documentary, and electronic music. His work asks what it means to listen, to remember, and to be present — in places both physical and virtual.

His projects have been exhibited internationally, including at Lydgalleriet in Bergen, Norway, and the Electronic Literature Organization Conference. He is committed to work that features underrepresented voices — most recently producing documentary media for the African Nova Scotian Climate Justice Project.

Vieira holds an appointment at York University in Cinema and Media Studies, where he teaches and researches XR, listening, and future storytelling.

XR ArtistComposerEducatorProducerResearcherOrganizer

Research & Talks

Approaching Perfect Ezan

Paper & Field Research · Istanbul & Western Anatolia

How technology is changing the 1400-year-old tradition of the Islamic call to prayer — drawing on fieldwork in Istanbul and Western Anatolia to examine the push and pull of aesthetics, modernity, and politics.

Locative Listening and the Construction of Dynamic Hybrid Space

Conference Presentation & Research

How location-aware listening creates dynamic hybrid spaces — exploring the convergence of physical place, sonic experience, temporality, and virtual embodiment in locative audio art.

Power, Presence, and Acoustic Community

Conference Paper · 2022

Sound mediating technologies as tools for connection, engagement, and manipulation — tracing mediated listening from prehistoric cave resonance through contemporary mobile audio.

Heterotopia, Presence, and Hacking Reality

Talk · XR Symposium

On AR, VR, and technologically-mediated consciousness — arguing that the mediation itself may be the message.

Listening Through Technology: Toward a Hybrid Aurality Practice

Paper · Media Studies

Developing a theory of hybrid aurality — how listening through technological mediation creates new forms of presence, community, and experiential immersion.

AR/VR on Smartphones: Smart Evolution or Disruptive Revolution?

Panel Talk · Toronto Metropolitan University

Panel discussion on the democratization and implications of mobile-based augmented and virtual reality for artists, educators, and cultural institutions.

Selected CV

Exhibitions & Screenings

LydgallerietBergen, Norway
MOTHER|HOME|HEAVEN (AR Installation)
Electronic Literature Organization ConferenceVictoria, 2017
Strathroy Stories (Audio Walk)
ELO Conference — Readings & ScreeningsBergen, 2015
The Chez (AR Walk)
LandSlide Possible FuturesHamilton
MOTHER|HOME|HEAVEN (AR Installation)
World Pride 2014Toronto
The Chez (Alternate Reality Walk)

Selected Production

Ohneganos: Water is Life2019–2023
Immersive Storytelling Producer, VR Documentary
African Nova Scotian Climate Justice Project2025
Producer, Documentary Media Series
HPO Intimate & Immersive2019
Creator / Producer, XR Installation

Talks & Presentations

Toronto Metropolitan University PanelToronto
Mobile AR & VR: Smart Evolution or Disruptive Revolution?
Electronic Literature Organization2015 / 2017
Conference presentations on locative media and listening
The LivingArts Hamilton PodcastHamilton
Interview on sound, video, and augmented reality practice

Teaching & Education

York UniversityOngoing
Adjunct, Cinema and Media Studies
Research FocusOngoing
XR, listening, future storytelling, location-based media
Community EducationActive
AR/VR workshops, Indigenous and marginalized communities

Contact

Let’s make something worth dreaming about.
Emailtonyvieira101@gmail.com Phone905-975-4735 Instagram@tonyvieira101