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.

Sound Walk

Walking Through the Great Silence

2023

A sound walk exploring how different species assign meaning to sound, our relationship to linear time and space, and how the Fermi Paradox may be applicable to more than just aliens.

Audio Walk

Kindness of Jazz/MacKay Sound Walk

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 AR

2024

An AR experience layering a digital realm over physical landscape, drawing on hiraeth — an untranslatable Welsh longing for a home you can’t return to.

Augmented Reality

Lake Huron Public Art Activation

2023

An AR project bringing a public mural on the shore of Lake Huron to life, reflecting the natural energy and organic rhythms of the surrounding environment.

Augmented Reality

Dogs of Durand

2021

A public art activation using augmented reality to share the personal stories of local residents and their dogs in Hamilton’s Durand neighbourhood.

Augmented Reality

Can You Hear What I See?

2021

An AR project exploring the relationship between sight and sound by creating intentional contrasts between visual and auditory inputs.

Electronic Literature

Nightmares for Children

2017

An electronic literature experiment drawing on real childhood dreams to examine imagination, memory, and a child’s interpretation of reality.

Hypermedia Narrative

FRACTALIZE 1: I’ve Loved You from Afar

2017

A fractal reminiscence of a romance across space and time — delivered in fractals with intentional gaps the user fills based on their own experiences.

Locative Storytelling

The Chez

2015

A locative storytelling piece commissioned for World Pride Toronto, centering on Chez Moi bar and a pivotal moment in Toronto’s lesbian bar scene.

Augmented Reality

MOTHER|HOME|HEAVEN

2014

A magic-mirror AR installation overlaying 3D models, video, poetic spoken word, and soundscape onto objects at the Markham Museum site.

Augmented Reality

Vessels of Memory

2013

An AR piece exploring the story of Eva through fractal and forensic narrative — imagining that objects could absorb and hold memories.

Hypermedia Narrative

Bureau of Emotional Statistics

2026

A poetic hypermedia narrative experiment disguised as a bureaucratic department — collecting, classifying, and expressing the data of human feeling.

Documentary Media

African Nova Scotian Climate Justice

2025

A multi-format documentary project exploring climate justice in African Nova Scotian communities through feature documentary, podcast series, and educational video resources.

Words & Music

The Curiosity Sessions

2023

A Words & Music project weaving interviews with spiritual leaders and jazz improvisations into explorations of curiosity, gratitude, and presence.

VR Documentary

Ohneganos: Water is Life

2023

A virtual reality experience bringing together the Haudenosaunee creation story with the urgent contemporary issue of water insecurity on Indigenous reserves.

Sound Art Collective

Sounding Spaces

2020–Present

An interdisciplinary arts project activating the sensorium through soundscapes that engage with the idea of placemaking in architectural and natural spaces.

XR Installation

HPO Intimate & Immersive

2019

Immersive projections, AR hotspots, a Sensorium Activation Zone, and more — exploring the spaces of otherness when real and virtual collide.

Intercurrent Performance

7 Days Before Christmas at the End of the World

2010

An intercurrent (occurring during the progress of another) music and visual media piece composed for live ensemble in a feedback loop process.

About

Working at the intersection of imagination, digital media & human experience.

My work as an educator, creator, organizer & producer is focused on developing meaningful experiences for audiences, learners & dreamers.

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

My projects have been exhibited internationally, including at Lydgalleriet in Bergen, Norway, and the Electronic Literature Organization Conference. I am committed to work that features underrepresented voices.

I’ve taught university courses that include: Podcasting: The Art & Craft of Audio Storytelling; Making Media; Exploring XR; Cross-platform Storytelling; Fourth-Year Thesis Media Projects Supervision; Research Methods for Digital Media; Narrative Strategies; and Introduction to Interactive Communications at York University, University of Niagara Falls, University of Guelph-Humber, Queen’s University and McMaster University.

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

Selected Teaching & Education Work

York University
University of Guelph-Humber
University of Niagara Falls
Queen’s University
McMaster University

Research

Sound of and standardizations to the Islamic Call to Prayer
Listening through Technology

Community Education

AR/VR Workshops
Locative Sound Walks
Hamilton Listening Lab

Contact

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