Ricardo is a designer, artist, programmer, and cultural manager. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Design and Technology from Parsons, The New School for Design, and has studied Information Visualization and Data Science. He teaches at the School of Design and has also taught at the School of Engineering, both at the Catholic University of Chile (UC). He directs the Diploma in Data Visualization at the UC Design School. He is interested in transdisciplinary connections, pursuing studies in Philosophy and Science. He develops projects at the intersection of visualization, graphics, programming, art, and design, exploring the aesthetic and subjective representation of data. He is the founder of C80.cl, a project that, since 2015, has used visualizations to support a contextualized understanding of the 1980 Chilean Constitution. As an artist, he has participated in exhibitions, conferences, and presentations in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Estonia, and other countries.

Interests: Social and cultural implications of technology; Complex systems; Creative programming; Information, design; Data visualization; Transdisciplinarity; Convergence of Arts and Sciences; Digital Humanities; Technology, Data and Society.