[3] Martínez attended Arizona State University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in studio art and painting in 2002.
He remained at the university to earn a master's degree in media art in 2011 and a PhD in rhetoric, composition, and linguistics in 2015.
[1] Martínez founded the indigenous hacker collective Radio Healer in 2003, a year after completing his first degree at Arizona State University.
[5] Their art consisted of moving tools, images, performances, and sounds that aided in creating metaphors to address the semiotic systems that they state are often misinterpreted.
The purpose of their collective is to combat these misinterpretations by giving the audience an opportunity to engage in re-imagining indigenous ceremonies.