Mark Bolotin
Multimedia Artist
Mark Bolotin is an award-winning multimedia artist, inventor and technologist, as well as the founder and artistic director of Synarcade Audio-Visuals (www.synarcade.com.au) and co-founder of the New York art technology company Hyphen Hub (www.hyphenhub.com). Bolotin has created large-scale interactive and immersive multimedia work across the world including at the Sydney Opera House, New York Hall of Science, Museum of Modern Art (Zagreb), Stadstheater Arnhem (The Netherlands), 3LD Art Technology Centre New York, Sydney Festival, SXSW (Texas), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), Burning Man, National Centre for Performing Arts (Beijing) and the Melbourne Arts House. These multimedia work primarily focus on fusing together theatre, film, music, puppetry and interactive technology in unique new ways. They include “Emergence: Build Your Own Being” (Sydney Opera House, 2007), in which audiences came together to create their ideal human being over four giant screens and then watch it come alive, and “The Lumiphonic Creature Choir” (www.creaturechoir.com), a multi-media rock opera featuring a giant twelve-headed creature that has toured across the world.
In 2014, Bolotin also co-founded and co-directed the New York art-technology organisation Hyphen Hub that supports and showcases top technology artists from across the world. In recognition of his work, he was appointed the Arts Co-Director for New York City’s inaugural Creative Tech Week 2016, a giant city-wide festival that involved over 800 leading tech artists and organisations including MoMA and the Met Museum. In 2018, Bolotin was featured at TEDxSydney and named as an Australian delegate to the Future Innovators Summit in Ars Electronica (Austria). He completed a Masters of Directing at NIDA focussing on new forms of technology-based performance and innovation. Since 2020, he has written and directed numerous multimedia shows including “ETC: Experiments in Theatre and Cinema” (NIDA X award, National Theatre of Parramatta), “Alice: Mother of Cinema” (NIDA original commission) and created multimedia for “Yoga Play” (La Boite, National Theatre of Parramatta), “Colder Than Here” (Ensemble), “Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World” (Javaad Alipoor Company UK). In 2023, Hyphen Hub - the organization that Bolotin co-founded- was celebrated at Ars Electronica and one of its artists was awarded the Prix Electronica, the top international prize for multimedia.