In 1978, he coined the term videopoetry to describe his multimedia work, and is considered to be one of the original pioneers of the form. His videopoems exhibit the formalist concerns in the integration of text, image and sound to explore the poet's role in a technology-oriented world. As a member of Montreal's first artist-run centre Vehicule, Tom Konyves was instrumental in the forming of a group of 7 poets, The Vehicule Poets, "who bonded together long enough to form one of the most cohesive poetry movements in Canada since the early 1960'sﾅ The group was a beehive of activity, collaborating to produce some of Montreal's most original multimedia performances, collage texts, videopoems, literary magazines and books." (The Montreal Gazette, April 3, 2004) He initiated many public poetry projects, such as Poesie En Mouvement/Poetry on the Buses, Montreal's first Concrete Poetry Exhibition; he produced and co-hosted an 11-part radio series for the CBC, Quebec's Anglophone Poets and he designed The Great Canadian Poetry Machine, an interactive Telidon-based project for Vancouver's Expo 86, promoted as "Canada's first computerized anthology of contemporary poetry."

He is presently teaching Visual Poetry at University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, BC, and working on the research project, From Page to Screen: The Emerging Phenomenon of Videopoetry.

Tom is the guest curator of the opening poetry film night of the festival.