Ed Halter | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | curator, writer |
Ed Halter is a film programmer, writer, and founder ofLight Industry, amicrocinema inBrooklyn, New York. He currently teaches atBard College, where he is Critic in Residence.[1]
His writing has been featured inArtforum,The Believer,Bookforum,Cinema Scope,frieze,Little Joe,Mousse,Rhizome, Triple Canopy, andVillage Voice.[2] Halter is interested in the intersection of video games, digital media, and Americanexperimental film.
His first bookFrom Sun Tzu to Xbox was released in 2006.[3] He has edited the compilationMass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty First Century (2015), withLauren Cornell. His edited volumeFrom The Third Eye: The Evergreen Review Film Reader was published bySeven Stories Press in 2018; it is a compilation of essays fromEvergreen Review which were published from 1950-1970.[4]
Halter has programmed and worked on various film festivals, particularly theNew York Underground Film Festival, which ran from 1994 to 2008.[5] He currently helps run and program events at Light Industry.[6] Light Industry is an exhibition space for experimental film currently housed inGreenpoint, Brooklyn,[7] after moving several locations in and around Brooklyn.[8] Light Industry has the goal of creating a space for the curation and cultivation of a thriving, but fragmented art scene.[9]
In 2017, Halter was awarded theCarl & Marlynn Thoma Art Foundation's Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art as an emerging writer.[10]
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