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Ph.D. Professor of Aesthetics and Theory of Contemporary Art at the Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, he is the editor of Estudios Visuales Magazine and was the Director of the I International Symposium on Visual Studies, taking place in Madrid, ARCO, feb 04. Formerly Dean of the Fine Arts Academy of Cuenca, Director of Exhibitions for the Ministry of Culture and visual arts curator of the Spanish Pavilion at Expo92. He has been founder editor of aleph, arts.zin and Acción Paralela. As a free lance art critic, he is a regular contributor to spanish and international art magazines -Frieze, Flash Art or Parkett among them. Spanish correspondant for ARTFORUM and regional editor for Rhizome. He is a member of Telefonica Art Collection Comittee. He has organized exhibitions as independent curator and has published the following books:
- cultura_RAM. mutaciones de la cultura en la era de su distribución electrónica, Gedisa, Barcelona, 2007.
- Noli me legere. El enfoque retórico y el primado de la alegoría en el arte contemporáneo, CENDEAC, Murcia, 2007.
- Estudios Visuales. La epistemología de la visualidad en la era de la globalización, (ed.) AKAL, Madrid, 2005.
- El tercer umbral. Estatuto de las prácticas artísticas en la era del capitalismo cultural. CENDEAC, Murcia, 2003.
- La era postmedia. Acción comunicativa, prácticas (post)arísticas y dispositivos neomediales. Editorial Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, 2002.
- The Blind Point. Spanish art of the nineties. Kunstraum Innsbruck - Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. Innsbruck / Salamanca, 1999. (english version available).
- Un ruido secreto. El arte en la era póstuma de la cultura, Mestizo, Murcia, 1996.
- Nuevas Estrategias Alegóricas, 1991, Tecnos, Colección Metrópolis, Madrid.
- Las Auras Frías, 1991, Anagrama, Barcelona, (Finalist for the Anagram Prize for Essays 1990).
- Before and After the Enthusiasm. Spanish Art 1972-92, 1989, SDU Publishers, La Haya. (english version available).
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Recent online curated e-shows available in english:
- The Conquest of Ubiquity. Centro Parraga (Murcia), CAAM (Canarias), KM (SanSebastian), 2003.
- Andy Warhol - Heath Bunting. @ Shock of the view, Walker Art Center,1999.
- The postmedia era. Arco 99, Madrid.
- The best of the 2 Worlds. Arco 98, Madrid
- Online Communities: Experimental Communication in the Virtual Diaspora -This article is included in OVER HERE. The New Contemporary Museum - MIT Press.
- Factories of identity - the contemporary rethoric of self-portraits. EXIT#10
- The Work of Art at the End of the Age of Singularity. MNCARS, Madrid, 2003.
- The Only Game. Porno and visuality (On Bernardí Roig). MEIAC, 2003.
- All Tomorrow parties - culture and youth, (21stc). EXIT#4, 2001.
- A *minor* theory of independence. Zehar #45. San Sebastian 2001.
- Online communities. Parachute #75. Vancouver 2001.
- Online critique.Transformations of art.criticism in contemporary societies. DeAppel, Amsterdam, apr2000.
- Contemporary transformations of the image-movement: from post-cinema to post-media. Acción Paralela #5. Ene 2000.
- Last (no)exit: net, Vidarte & Ciber@rt, 1999
- Some scattered thoughts on the web... and the Comming Community. Atlantica Dic.99