Bio.

Hector Centeno is a digital media creator, developer and instructor with over two decades of experience as an independent artist, interactive systems programmer and designer, and digital media technician.

As an artist, Hector’s focus is on the aesthetic potential of immersive digital sound, visual and interactive experiences that seek to engage the audience into a reflection of existence, place relationship and perception of reality. Among his artistic activities are national and international presentations of multi-channel sound art, interactive installation art, live sound and video performances, and virtual reality experiences.

As a software and interactive system developer and designer, he has worked on virtual and augmented reality interactive experiences, video game mechanics and simulation systems, hardware sensors and micro-controller interactive systems for art installations, and spatial audio software tools. The companies involved include New Adventures in Sound Art, Impossible Things (AR) and for multiple independent media artists.

He holds the position of Assistant Professor at York University in Toronto, in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts (School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design) where he teaches courses for the Creative Technologies and Media Arts programs. His teaching includes topics related to virtual production, sound art, video production, interactivity, virtual and augmented reality, computer programming and general digital media design theory and techniques. He has also taught at OCAD University (Digital Futures Program), George Brown College (VFX graduate, Interaction Design Program) and at Sheridan College’s SiRT (Virtual Production, Unreal Engine).

Detailed CV available upon request.