Ed Halter is a film programmer, writer, and founder of Light Industry, a microcinema in Brooklyn, New York. He currently teaches at Bard College, where he is Critic in Residence.

Criticism

His writing has been featured in '' Artforum'', ''

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'', '' Bookforum'', ''Cinema Scope'', '' frieze'', ''Little Joe'', ''Mousse'',

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, Triple Canopy, and '' Village Voice.'' Halter is interested in the intersection of video games, digital media, and American experimental film.

Books

His first book ''

From Sun Tzu to Xbox ''From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games'' is a book of video game history written by the journalist and film critic Ed Halter, published in 2006. Description From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games describes the evolution of video games f ...

'' was released in 2006. He has edited the compilation ''Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty First Century'' (2015), with

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. His edited volume ''From The Third Eye: The Evergreen Review Film Reader'' was published by

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in 2018; it is a compilation of essays from ''

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'' which were published from 1950-1970.

Film programming

Halter has programmed and worked on various film festivals, particularly the

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, which ran from 1994 to 2008. He currently helps run and program events at Light Industry. Light Industry is an exhibition space for experimental film currently housed in

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, after moving several locations in and around Brooklyn. Light Industry has the goal of creating a space for the curation and cultivation of a thriving, but fragmented art scene.

Awards

In 2017, Halter was awarded the Carl & Marlynn Thoma Art Foundation's Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art as an emerging writer.

References

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