Giovanni Santini

Giovanni Santini is an Extended Reality (XR) artist who explores the use of emerging technologies to expand the expressive possibilities in multimedia arts. His focus is on Virtual and Augmented Reality for live performances, as well as shared immersivity for the audience, which implies the use of multiple projections (or immersive screens) and spatial audio. Machine learning is also embedded in the live processing of audio and visuals.

Past and ongoing collaborations include Ars Electronica Linz, the Swiss Radio and Television, Hong Kong Research Visualization Center, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong, Hanshan Museum, UC Berkeley, Helsinki XR Center with performances in more than 20 countries, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, the US, Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Argentina.

His artistic practice is tightly connected to arts technology research, with numerous papers published in international conferences and journals (NIME, Sound and Music Computing, Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Mathematics, the book Creativity in the Age of Digital Reproduction etc.).

Giovanni Santini has an M.A. in Arts in Piano, from Mascagni Musical Institute, Livorno, Italy and an M.A. in Arts in Composition and Theory, from Italian Swiss Conservatory, Lugano, Switzerland. He also received a Ph. D in Music, from Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China.

Website: www.giovannisantini.com

Santini博士是一位扩展现实（XR）艺术家，他探索使用新兴技术来扩展多媒体艺术的表现可能性。他的研究重点在于将虚拟现实和增强现实应用于现场表演，以及为观众提供共享的沉浸式体验，这涉及到使用多个投影（或沉浸式屏幕）和空间音频。此外，机器学习也被嵌入到音频和视觉的现场处理中。

他过去和正在进行中的合作包括奥地利林兹电子艺术中心（Ars Electronica Linz）、瑞士广播电视（the Swiss Radio and Television）、香港研究可视化中心（Hong Kong Research Visualization Center）、香港新音乐乐团（Hong Kong New Music Ensemble）、意大利驻香港总领事馆文化处（the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong）、含山博物馆（Hanshan Museum）、加州大学伯克利分校、赫尔辛基XR中心（Helsinki XR Center），他在中国大陆、中国香港、美国、意大利、法国、德国、英国、阿根廷等20多个国家和地区进行过表演。

Santini博士的艺术实践与艺术技术研究紧密相连，并在国际会议和期刊上发表了大量论文（包括NIME, Sound and Music Computing, Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Mathematics, the book Creativity in the Age of Digital Reproduction等）。

他获得意大利利沃诺马斯卡尼音乐学院钢琴艺术硕士学位，瑞士意大利语区音乐学院(卢加诺音乐学院)的作曲与理论艺术硕士学位，以及中国香港浸会大学音乐博士学位。

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