Toni Sant

{{Short description|Maltese academic (born 1968)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Use British English|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = | image = File:Wikimedia Summit 2019 - Portrait Toni Sant.jpg | alt = Portrait taken at Wikimedia Summit 2019 | caption = Toni Sant at Wikimedia Summit 2019 | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1968}} | occupation = Director of Digital Media & Film Production | employer = Salford University | known_for = ''Franklin Furnace & the Spirit of the Avant-Garde'' | website = [http://www.tonisant.com ToniSant.com] | module = {{Listen| embed=yes |filename = Toni Sant voice en.flac |title = Sant's voice |type = speech |description = recorded February 2017}} }} '''Toni Sant''' (born 1968) is a Maltese academic and former radio and television presenter, producer, music journalist and Wikimedian.<ref>{{Cite web |title=User:ToniSant - Meta |url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ToniSant |access-date=2025-07-31 |website=meta.wikimedia.org |language=en}}</ref> He is Director of Digital Media & Film Production at Salford University<ref name="Sant-Salford">{{cite web|url=http://www.salford.ac.uk/arts-media/arts-media-academics/toni-sant|title=Dr Toni Sant|last=Sant|first=Toni|publisher=Salford University|access-date=4 May 2017}}</ref> and was formerly Reader in Digital Curation at the University of Hull's School of Arts & New Media<ref name="PCKS">{{cite web|url=http://plagiarismconference.org/conference/keynote-speakers|title=Keynote speakers|year=2014|publisher=iParadigms Europe|access-date=22 June 2014}}</ref> on the Scarborough campus.

== Education == Sant has a B.A. in Theatre Studies from the University of Malta and an M.A. and Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University.<ref name="sanm" /> His publications include the book ''Franklin Furnace & the Spirit of the Avant-Garde: A History of the Future'', about the Franklin Furnace Archive arts organisation in New York.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo10397406.html | publisher=University of Chicago Press |title=Franklin Furnace and the Spirit of the Avant-Garde | access-date=24 March 2014}}</ref>

== Career == Sant joined Radio Malta in 1986 as a journalist on music programmes such as {{Lang|mt|Kważi Kull Filgħaxija}} (1988/89), {{Lang|mt|Mill-Garaxx}} (TVM, 1989/90), {{Lang|mt|Il-Fil tat-Tiġdid}} (1989), {{Lang|mt|Mal-20 bid-Daqq}} (1989/90), {{Lang|mt|Immaġina:}} ''John Lennon'' (Radio Malta, 1990), ''Blast'' (TVM, 1990), {{Lang|it|Tutti Frutti}} (TVM, 1991). His television career included commentary for Malta at the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest.{{citation needed|date=June 2014}}

In December 1991, Sant left TVM to begin a career as television and radio producer and programme manager for ''Radio One Live'' which produces Music programmes. Sant also remained associated with TVM as he produced music programmes for the station.{{citation needed|date=June 2014}}

Sant was previously Senior Lecturer in Performance & Creative Technologies and Director of Research in the School of Arts and New Media at the University of Hull.<ref name=sanm>{{cite web | url = http://www2.hull.ac.uk/scarborough/campus-departments/sanm/meet-the-team/toni-sant.aspx|title = Dr Toni Sant | publisher= University of Hull: The School of Arts and New Media | access-date=24 March 2014}}</ref>

He has also been Education Organiser for Wikimedia UK.<ref name="WMUK">{{cite web|url=https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/03/toni-sant-joins-wikimedia-uk-as-education-organiser/|title=Toni Sant joins Wikimedia UK as Education Organiser|date=2013-03-08|publisher=Wikimedia UK|access-date=22 June 2014}}</ref> He is the artistic director of Spazju Kreattiv (formerly the St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity), Malta's national centre for creativity.<ref name="Valeetta">{{cite web|url=https://valletta2018.org/news/new-artistic-directors-announced/|title=New artistic directors announced|date=3 November 2014|work=Valeetta|access-date=4 May 2017}}</ref><ref name="Reljic">{{cite web|url=https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/arts/cultural_diary/47171/ringing_in_the_changes__toni_sant|title=Ringing in the changes: Toni Sant|last=Reljic|first=Teodor|date=8 December 2014|access-date=4 May 2017}}</ref>

Currently Sant remains associated with music by broadcasting podcasts on his website.<ref name="SantPodcasts">{{cite web|url=https://www.tonisant.com/latest/blog/podcasts/|title=Podcasts|last=Sant|first=Toni|publisher=Toni Sant|access-date=22 June 2014}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==

* {{Cite book |first1=Toni |last1=Sant |author-mask=0 |title=Franklin Furnace & the Spirit of the Avant-Garde: A History of the Future |year=2011 |publisher=Intellect |isbn=9781841503714}} * {{Cite book |first1=Toni |last1=Sant |author-mask=0 |title=Remembering Rediffusion in Malta: A history without future? |year=2016 |publisher=Midsea Books |isbn=9789993275688 }} * {{Cite book |editor1-first=Toni |editor1-last=Sant |title=Documenting Performance: The Context and Processes of Digital Curation and Archiving |year=2017 |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=9781472588180 }}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links==

* [http://www.tonisant.com ToniSant.com] * {{Twitter}}

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