Dr Toni Sant is the Director of Digital Curation Lab at MediaCityUK and Associate Professor in the School of Arts, Media, and Creative Technology at the University of Salford. Between 2014 and 2020 he was the Artistic Director of Spazju Kreattiv, Malta’s national centre for creativity. He has written widely about digital curation and media archaeology, starting with his book Franklin Furnace & the Spirit of the Avant Garde: A History of the Future (Intellect, 2011). Other recent books include Documenting Performance: The Context and Processes of Digital Curation and Archiving (Bloomsbury, 2017), The Spazju Kreattiv Art Collection (Fondazzjoni Kreattività, 2020), and Enrique Tabone: Catalogue Raisonné (Kite Group, 2023). In 2021 he was awarded the National Book Prize of Malta for literary non-fiction for a book of Facebook posts called Jien-Noti-Jien (Klabb Kotba Maltin, 2020), which he co-authored with EU Literature Prize winner Immanuel Mifsud during the first Covid pandemic lockdown. He is also an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. His interest in British art curating revolves around the development of a UK-wide network of university art collections.
Professional Affiliations
- MediaCityUK
- University of Salford
Membership Type
- Member
