Pierre-Marc de Biasi is an artist, researcher, writer, editor and journalist. A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, he pursued a triple degree in literature, philosophy and visual arts, and holds an agrégation, a doctorate, as well as a habilitation to conduct research (HDR). A research director at the CNRS, he has published around fifty books and more than three hundred articles on Flaubert, genetic criticism, creative processes, paper, contemporary lexicon, art history, eroticism, mediology and digital culture. He has produced documentary films for Arte and three hundred programmes for France Culture. He also directs several collections at CNRS Éditions. His work as a visual artist (painting, sculpture, video, installation, performance) has led to some fifty exhibitions and seven public commissions. His works have thus entered some one hundred public and private collections, both in France and abroad.