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Dr Toni Sant's Outputs (20)

Playful Science Engagement and Interactive Interpretation Prototyping: An Exploratory Study for the Science and Industry Museum (2024)
Thesis

Facilitating playful, informal learning about scientific subjects is both a rising and challenging area of research. Science museum settings offer an interesting opportunity to study this topic through the perspective of visitor engagement with STEM... Read More about Playful Science Engagement and Interactive Interpretation Prototyping: An Exploratory Study for the Science and Industry Museum.

Naked data: curating Wikidata as an artistic medium to interpret prehistoric figurines (2023)
Journal Article
Sant, T., & Tabone, E. (2023). Naked data: curating Wikidata as an artistic medium to interpret prehistoric figurines. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 19(3), 445-462. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2023.2253335

In 2019, Digital Curation Lab Director Toni Sant and the artist Enrique Tabone started collaborating on a research project exploring the visualization of specific data sets through Wikidata for artistic practice. An art installation called Naked Data... Read More about Naked data: curating Wikidata as an artistic medium to interpret prehistoric figurines.

Nudity in Digital Performance: Reappraising the Early Online Works of Annie Sprinkle and Frank Moore (2022)
Journal Article
Sant, T. (2022). Nudity in Digital Performance: Reappraising the Early Online Works of Annie Sprinkle and Frank Moore. #Journal not on list, 171(2), 92–104. https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.171.0092

The early online works of American artists Annie Sprinkle and Frank Moore, presented separately, draw heavily on their own art practice in terms of method, beyond the specific erotic content they produced, which was not too different from their offli... Read More about Nudity in Digital Performance: Reappraising the Early Online Works of Annie Sprinkle and Frank Moore.

How Can Wikipedia Save Us all?: Assuming Good Faith from all Points of View in the Age of Fake News and Post-truth (2021)
Book Chapter
Sant, T. (2021). How Can Wikipedia Save Us all?: Assuming Good Faith from all Points of View in the Age of Fake News and Post-truth. In Media, Technology and Education in a Post-Truth Society: From Fake News, Datafication and Mass Surveillance to the Death of Trust (133–143). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80043-906-120211010

The world's most popular noncommercial website is built on five pillars, which include an assumption of good faith and ensuring all points of view are included in every encyclopedia article. How does this pan out in the day-to-day reality of fake new... Read More about How Can Wikipedia Save Us all?: Assuming Good Faith from all Points of View in the Age of Fake News and Post-truth.

Establishing a creative identity : rebranding a creative space (2017)
Journal Article
Sant, T., & Visanich, V. (2017). Establishing a creative identity : rebranding a creative space. City, Culture and Society, 10, 11-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2017.04.001

Strategies on audience development have become central to cultural debates in Malta. Such interest stems partly from Malta's current low rate of participation in cultural events. While there has been a rising interest in analysing cultural consumptio... Read More about Establishing a creative identity : rebranding a creative space.

Documenting performance : the context and processes of digital curation and archiving (2017)
Book
Sant, T. (2017). T. Sant (Ed.), Documenting performance : the context and processes of digital curation and archiving. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Performance in the digital age has undergone a radical shift in which a once ephemeral art form can now be relived, replayed and repeated. Until now, much scholarship has been devoted to the nature of live performance in the digital age; Documenting... Read More about Documenting performance : the context and processes of digital curation and archiving.

Creating a comprehensive archive of Maltese music on CD (2015)
Book Chapter
Sant, T. (2015). Creating a comprehensive archive of Maltese music on CD. In S. Baker (Ed.), Preserving Popular Music Heritage : Do-it-Yourself, Do-it-Together (114-125). Routledge (Taylor & Francis). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315769882-9

Accurately preserving data encoded on an audio CD is a more complex concern than preserving information on a data CD. This complexity is due in part to restrictions imposed upon the format by the music industry, but also to how the data itself is str... Read More about Creating a comprehensive archive of Maltese music on CD.

Interdisciplinary approaches to documenting performance (2014)
Journal Article
Sant, T. (2014). Interdisciplinary approaches to documenting performance. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 10, 3-6. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2014.912495

A special issue of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Documenting Performance featuring papers from the TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) working group on Documenting... Read More about Interdisciplinary approaches to documenting performance.