(Tijuana, Mexico, 1975) Writer, artist and activist, Ilich's work focuses on the practice and theory of narrative communication. He studied at Wesleyan University in Ohio and obtained a Master's Degree in Art and Media History from the Donau-Universität Krems in Austria. In the early nineties he co-founded the collective Contra-Cultura and was involved in the independent scene in Tijuana. His complex practice includes literature, photography, comic, video and electronic music and has been identified as part of Generation X in Mexico. He was editor of Sputnik Cultura Digital magazine and co-founder of Nettime Latino. His first novel Metro Pop was published in 1997, later published Tekno Guerrilla (2007) and Circa 94 (2010), and in 2010 received the Binational Prize of Young Novel Word Border. His work has been shown in different spaces in Europe and America. In 2008 he founded "Diego de la Vega", a media conglomerate that works under the secret agenda of "another world is possible" with the goal of functionalizing and generating common goods; As well as Spacebank an initiative that seeks to finance, produce and generate collective resources under a global economy. He lives and works in New York.