Dr. Elías Barón Levín Rojo holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Xochimilco, a Master’s degree in Educational Technology, and a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences.

He serves as a Full Professor (Profesor Titular E) in the Undergraduate Program in Communication at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Xochimilco, where he teaches modules in Film Workshop, Radio Workshop, Radio Theory, and Film Theory.

His research interests focus on social integration processes through artistic and media expression and the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), particularly in the field of disability, as well as alternative education and communication processes. Additionally, he works on the concept of aurality surrounding the potential of sound as a research tool, employing participatory methodological strategies and sound art practices from a transdisciplinary perspective in ethnobiological, socio-environmental, social action, and gender and identity studies.

He is a founding member of the Sound and Listening Studies Network (RESEMX) and the Arts, Sciences, Humanities, and Citizenship Network (ACHC) at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.

In social research and media production, he has served as coordinator of the media program at La Pirinola A.C. since 2007. He was the producer and scriptwriter for the radio show Cero Grados on Radio Educación in 2025. He has worked as a producer and contributor for La Pirinola Gira en la Radio, a show produced by individuals with intellectual disabilities, and directed its streaming version, Radio Sorda, for La Pirinola A.C. and the Mexican Radio Institute (IMER). Furthermore, he produced the podcast Voces necias in 2018 and co-directed the documentary Así lo vimos: Potentiae in 2016 alongside the VJ Down collective.

As an independent art curator, he has organized multiple exhibitions on electronic art, ranging from electrography to Internet art projects. He co-directed the Geografías Suaves Regional Film, Video, and Society Festival in Mérida, Yucatán, from 1999 to 2003. He has also served as an advisor to the Multimedia Center of the National Center for the Arts (CENART), coordinator of the International Competition at the Transitio Festival in 2005, and artistic director of WTCARTFEST05.

In higher education and cultural management, he taught video and electronic media at the Faculty of Arts of the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (UAEM), where he also coordinated the 2005 curriculum plan. He coordinated the Academic Extension Department at the "La Esmeralda" National School of Painting, Sculpture, and Engraving (2002–2004) and the Residencias Creativas project at the Natural History Museum between 2001 and 2004. He served as Head of the Multimedia Department at the University Museum of Sciences and Arts (MUCA UNAM) from 1998 to 2001. Additionally, he established and managed the audiovisual production unit at the Carrillo Gil Museum, where he originally started as video production coordinator, producing art documentaries in which he worked as director, producer, and cinematographer.