Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory at the University of La Laguna. Coordinator of the research group TURICOM, The Tourist Experience: Image, Body, and Death in the Culture of Leisure (http://turicom.es/) and the research project Paradoxical Modernity: The Experience of Art and Tourism in a Developing Spain (1959-1975). Since the 1980s, Díaz has been holding conferences and publishing articles in specialised magazines. He was the director of Acto eds, http://reacto.webs.ull.es/home.html. Among his more recent publications, of particular note are “Algunas ideas sueltas sobre viajes, rutas y desvíos”, Muntadas. Ejercicios sobre memorias pasadas y presentes, Ateneo de Manila and Seville’s CAAC, 2022; and “Arte, consumo y transgresión caníbal: a propósito de Yves Klein, Tennessee Williams y el cine exploitation”, in Encuentros salvajes: arte, consumo y turismo caníbal, Concreta, 2022 (http://www.editorialconcreta.org/).