Professor Elías Barón Levin Rojo holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Xochimilco Campus; a Master´s in Educational Technology from the Latin American Institute of Educational Communication; and a Bachelor's Degree in Communication Sciences from the Xochimilco Campus of the UAM.

His field of interest is the processes of social integration through artistic/media expression and the use of ICTs, especially in the field of disability as well as alternative education and communication processes. He also works as an independent curator, with several exhibitions on electronic art, from electrography to Internet art projects, and he has co-directed the Regional Festival of Film, video, and society Geografías Suaves in Mérida, Yucatán 1999-2003.

Since 2000, he has participated as a reviewer of research projects, Human Rights, and gender perspectives for INDESOL. He has participated as a project manager with a gender perspective and vulnerable groups for SEDESOL since 2005.

Since 2005, he has been producer and collaborator of the program La Pirinola Gira en la Radio, a program made by people with intellectual disabilities and since 2015 he has been director and producer of the program Radio Sorda, transmission and interpretation in Mexican Sign Language of the above mentioned program for deaf communities in video streaming.

He was an advisor to the Multimedia Center of the National Center for the Arts, where he served as a member of the Planning Committee of the Electronic Arts and Video Festival Transitio MX 2005 and 2007, and coordinator of the International Competition of the Festival in 2005. He was a professor at the UAEM in the Faculty of Arts and coordinator of the 2005 curriculum. He was the artistic director of WTCARTFEST05. He coordinated the Academic Extension Department of ENPEG La Esmeralda from 2003 to 2005. In 1999-2000 he wrote a column on electronic art in Milenio Diario and collaborated in the supplement of the same newspaper: Cibersivo.

He worked as Head of the Multimedia Department at the University Museum of Sciences and Arts (MUCA UNAM) and Arts (MUCA UNAM) between 1998 and 2001; previously he performed similar work at the Carrillo Gil Museum. At the MACG he started as coordinator of video production, an area that was mainly dedicated to the elaboration of documentaries on art, in many of which he acted as director, producer and director of photography.

He has been primarily interested in the diffusion of video art and has participated as promoter, jury member and advisor in several projects including Vid@rte 99, the Second Mexican Short Film Festival and Transitio_Mx. He designed the Creative Residencies project at the Natural History Museum.

In 2002, he received a grant from the Education through Art Program and in 1991, he was awarded a conversion grant from FONCA
conversion grant from FONCA, was awarded a scholarship by the International Museum of Electrography in Spain, and was a FAO Fellow in the Communication and Participation program of the Mexican Institute of Water Technology.

He is currently Professor in the Bachelor's Degree in Communication at the Xochimilco Campus. He has the distinction of PROMEP Profile. He is an independent Art Curator, Specialist in media and disability.

He has been part of the Mexican section of the Audiovisual and New Technologies Committee of ICOM. Collaborator with the Cátedra Itinerante de Narración Oral Escénica (CINOE) for the design of the project Cuéntale a Todos in coordination with the Instituto de Cultura de la Ciudad de México, as well as collaborator of different publications.