Andrea Pinotti (M.Phil., Ph.D.) is a Professor of Aesthetics in the Philosophy Department “Piero Martinetti” at the University La Statale of Milan (UniMi), where he coordinates the Ph.D. Program in Image, Language, Figure. Professor Pinotti is the principal investigator of the AN-ICON project (2019–2024), a study about the history, theory, and practices of environmental images funded by the European Research Council (ERC) with an Advanced Grant. He has been a Panofsky visiting professor at the Central Institute of Art History (ZI) in Munich (2023); a fellow of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University in New York (2003–2004 and 2021–2022); a visiting professor (Directeur d’Études Associé) at the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris (2008 and 2022); a Fritz Saxl Senior fellow at the Warburg Institute in London (2010); a visiting professor at the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 (2011); a visiting scholar (Gastwissenschaftler) at the ZfL in Berlin (2012); a visiting professor (Directeur d’Études Associé) at the Fondation Maison des Science de l’Homme (FMSH) in Paris (2015), being elected in 2021 president of its scientific board; a fellow at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study (IEA) (2017–2018). Professor Pinotti won the “Wissenschaftspreis der Aby-Warburg-Stiftung” in 2018. His research focuses on visual culture studies, memorialization and monumentality, phenomenological aesthetics, empathy theories, and experimentation in extended reality (i.e., augmented and virtual reality). In exploring the link between architecture and neuroscience, Professor Pinotti lectured in the third edition of the “Moving Boundaries — Human Sciences and the Future of Architecture” (MB) winter course in Venice (2023).