ACADEMIC TRAJECTORY

Currently I'm obteining a doctoral degree in Fine Arts at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. Recently I have inscribed my project of theoretical-experimental thesis entitled "Extreme Signs: super icon, ultra sign, abstract and everything", which will be directed by the UPV's doctor-professor Josu Rekalde Izaguirre.

Diploma of advanced studies (DEA) in semiology of artistic image by the UPV-EHU (2007). Overcome doctorate investigation period by defending a work entitled "Hipo signs and hiper signs: study of the boundaries between the signs and their relating in art". Overcome doctorate learning period.

Master in Journalism by the newspaper El Correo and the University of the Basque Country (1991/1992).

Graduate in fine arts, painting specialty, by the University of the Basque Country (1982/1987).

Technician in Infographics and Numeric Image by the Image and New Technologies Center of Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain).

PROFESIONAL TRAJECTORY

Audiovisuals technician at Montehermoso Cultural Center (2006/2007).

Communication director at Solunica e-Business Solutions Ltd. (2000/2005).

General manager at Eykon Synthetic Image, Ltd. (1995/2000). Click to watch demo.

Graphic designer and illustrator at the newspaper Diario Vasco of San Sebastian and at the Murcia's newspaper "La Verdad" (1991/1992).

Associate Professor of Technical Drawing, at School of Technical Engineers in Vitoria, UPV-EHU (1990).

ARTISTIC TRAJECTORY

"Icosaedric roses" video piece that was selected for exhibition at the Luis de Ajuria room, in the last "Certamen de Arte Alavés" (2006).

"The Kali Suite", first individual exhibition at Dato Room in Vitoria (summer, 2002), through Montehermoso Cultural Center Support for Creation program.

"On the wall, on the sky" piece, that was selected to competition at the audiovisual festival of Vitoria-Gasteiz in 1999.

Video piece "Four ways of making emphasis in a metaphysical box of Jorge Oteiza", that was selected for competition at the Video Festival of Navarra in 1998.

Video piece "The key", that was selected for competition at the Video Festival of Vitoria in 1994.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

KREA grant for investigation, 2008.

First Prize "Ideas for business creation, IXth. Edition ", Culture Department of Basque Government (1994).

Special support for investigation and improvement to study illustration for newspapers, Diputación Foral de Álava (1993/1994).

WEBSITES AND PAPERS.

The state of art is my website about semiology of art.

Art as cognition laboratory is the title of the homonymous course of doctorate in which I have participated with my text "From ultrasign to abstraction" (at the end of the page).

The copied human being is another university's work that belongs to another doctorate course.