Pietro Conte is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the State University of Milan. Before taking on his current position, he worked at the University of Lisbon (2015-2018) and at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2018-2022). His research focuses on immersive (virtual) environments and memorialization. The author of the monographs Unframing Aesthetics (2019) and In carne e cera. Estetica e fenomenologia dell’iperrealismo [Flesh and Wax: Aesthetics and Phenomenology of Hyperrealism] (2014), Pietro is also a team member of the ERC project “An-Iconology: History, theory, and practices of environmental images”, where he is carrying out a research on digital immortality and contemporary developments in thanatology.