In today’s episode I’m having a conversation with Tony Vieira. He’s a musician, educator, composer, multi-disciplinary artist whose projects always have an interesting philosophical idea behind them. After completing his undergrad in Jazz performance, he did a masters in Composition, which led him in a winding path to collaborating in Augmented Reality projects. He then completed his PhD exploring some fascinating stuff including sound mediation through technology, place making through listening, and location aware media and sound, and  storytelling using space as an active character. I love this conversation for so many reasons, including the fact that he often answers questions with stories or references to works of art, but I especially love that I got to ask him about some things that have been on my mind recently regarding Artificial Intelligence and how he sees that interacting with and changing the landscape for artists in the coming decades. So here you go - a conversation with an inspiring maker of art and my good friend, Tony Vieira.

Let's let January be our *messiest* month of the year!

"You are not here for yourself. And you're not here for others. You're here to be yourself for others."This starts with calming our two primary systems of survival - our Threat system (Fight/Flight/Freeze/Faint) and our Reward system (Goal Setting/Drive) so that we have the freedom to live more and more out of our secondary system - Compassion (Tend and Befriend).

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