He is a professor and research fellow in the field of aesthetics and art at Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. He holds a PhD from Madrid’s Universidad Autónoma. He conducts research in contemporary art theory; art practices, authorship and new technologies; and creative work and postfordism. He contributes to publications such as Afterall, ARTnews, Culture Machine, Parse, Curare, and Revista de Occidente. He writes as a critic and reviewer for ABC daily paper and Revista de libros, both in Madrid. He is the co-editor of Propiedad intelectual, nuevas tecnologías y libre acceso a la cultura (2008), and ¿Desea guardar los cambios? Propiedad intelectual y tecnologías digitales: hacia un nuevo pacto social (2009). The title of his last book is Los comunes digitales. Nuevas ecologías del trabajo artístico (Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico). He has been guest professor at New York’s Columbia University in New York, as well as at Goldsmiths, University of London, and conducts regular courses at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and also at Universidad Iberoamericana and Centro Nacional de las Artes, in Mexico City, and Universidad de las Américas, in Puebla, where he worked as post-doctoral coordinator and directed the PhD degree courses Research Group in Creativity and culture theories. He is currently a member of Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, level 1.