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).