Artist, researcher and cultural producer. Co-founder and co-director ofMediaLabMadrid, a transdisciplinary programme focused on the exploration of newmodels of cultural diffusion, research, education and production at the Conde DuqueCultural Centre (CCCD) in Madrid. Worth underscoring is Rico’s co-direction of the1st International Festival of Art, Science and Technology, Cybervision, at the CCCD inMadrid (2002), and the exhibitions banquete_metabolismo y comunicación (2003),banquete_comunicación en evolución, (2005), and Digital Transit at CCCD, coproducedby Ars Electronica Center from Linz and MediaLabMadrid. He is currentlydirecting the R&D programme on ecophysiology of creation and knowledge transfer.