Doctor in Audiovisual Communication and professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), where he has served as director of cultural programming, he has been working since the early 1990s on various activities related to visual and sound arts, publishing in numerous specialized journals, catalogues, and books.
He has carried out research stays at the Universities of Nevada (Reno, Basque Studies Program 2002), New York University (2008), Temple University (Philadelphia, 2014), at the Study Centre of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, 2015), as well as at the Spanish Academy in Rome, where he produced the sound piece Incontro alle Quattro Fontane for the exhibition Processi 150 (Rome, 2023), along with the book Encuentro en las Quattro Fontane (Ed. Melusina, 2024).
In recent years, his research work has been framed within the Videoflux project at UPV/EHU, a group with which he has been developing efforts in the recovery, archiving, and re-editing of the experimental audiovisual heritage of the Basque Country.
In the early 1990s he co-founded the video art distributor Ars Video and co-edited the magazine of the same name. He also worked on regular video art programming for the Larrotxene (Donostia) and Sala Rekalde (Bilbao) venues between 1992 and 1995.
Among his early curatorial projects are the video and performance exhibition Lights, Camera, Action… Cut! for IVAM (Valencia) and MNCARS (Madrid) in 1997, and the documentary research project Devenir vídeo (180’, 2005), part of the Desacuerdos project and produced by Arteleku (Donostia), MACBA (Barcelona), and the José Guerrero Foundation (Granada).
More recently, he has curated the performance, dance, and film series Displaced Bodies and Displaced Bodies II, at the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid, 2015) and Azkuna Zentroa (Bilbao, 2016). He has also created the television programmes Toni Serra/Abu Ali. Opening the Vision, Iñigo Salaberria: Walking to See (the Light), Waiting to See (the Shadow), and OVNI: A Nomadic Vessel, all for Metrópolis/RTVE (April 2021, October 2022, March 2025).
Since 2019 he has been developing the cycle Voices that Walk, which has been presented in radio/podcast format for Consonni/AZ (autumn 2019), as a film series (EHUKultura, 2019), through the exhibition Voices that Walk at the Cerezales Foundation (León, 2022), as well as in the publication of the book Voices that Walk (Bilbao, 2023).
