(b. 1968, Kaliningrad) – is an artist, curator and art theorist. His research focuses on different aspects of interdisciplinary art media, as well as on submediality aesthetics. He is the author of many articles on contemporary art, as well as a number of books and anthologies, including BioMediale. Contemporary Society and Genomic Culture (Kaliningrad, 2004), Evolution Haute Couture: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age (Kaliningrad, 1 vol., 2009; 2 vol., 2013). He has curated more than twenty major exhibitions in Russia and abroad, including SOFT CONTROL: Art, Science and the Technological Unconscious as part of the Maribor – European Capital of Culture 2012. He is a two-time winner of the National Innovation Award for contemporary arts (2008 and 2013) and a Golden Nica nominee from Prix Ars Electronica (Austria, 2014) in the category Visionary Pioneers of Media Art. Since 1998, Bulatov is the curator at the Baltic Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Russia).