Ed Halter
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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.{{Cite web|url=http://film.bard.edu/faculty/|title=Faculty|website=FILM & ELECTRONIC ARTS|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-14}}
Criticism
His writing has been featured in Artforum, The Believer, Bookforum, Cinema Scope, frieze, Little Joe, Mousse, Rhizome, Triple Canopy, and Village Voice.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bard.edu/ccs/meet/faculty/ed-halter/|title=CCS Bard {{!}} Ed Halter|last=Consulting|first=Business Technology|website=www.bard.edu|access-date=2017-12-14}} Halter is interested in the intersection of video games, digital media, and American experimental film.
Books
His first book From Sun Tzu to Xbox was released in 2006.{{Cite web|url=http://www.edhalter.com/info/bio/|title=bio : ed halter dot com|website=www.edhalter.com|language=en|access-date=2017-12-14}} He has edited the compilation Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty First Century (2015), with Lauren Cornell. His edited volume From The Third Eye: The Evergreen Review Film Reader was published by Seven Stories Press in 2018; it is a compilation of essays from Evergreen Review which were published from 1950-1970.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sevenstories.com/books/3114-from-the-third-eye|title=From the Third Eye|website=sevenstories.com|access-date=2017-12-14}}
Film programming
Halter has programmed and worked on various film festivals, particularly the New York Underground Film Festival, which ran from 1994 to 2008.{{Cite news|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2008/04/01/the-end-of-the-new-york-underground-film-festival/|title=The End of the New York Underground Film Festival|access-date=2017-12-14}} He currently helps run and program events at Light Industry.{{Cite news|url=https://brooklynrail.org/2011/09/film/cinema-as-an-eventan-interview-with-light-industrys-ed-halter|title=Cinema as an Event: An Interview with Light Industry's Ed Halter|access-date=2017-12-14}} Light Industry is an exhibition space for experimental film currently housed in Greenpoint, Brooklyn,{{Cite web|url=http://www.lightindustry.org/about/|title=Light Industry|website=www.lightindustry.org|language=en|access-date=2017-12-14}} after moving several locations in and around Brooklyn.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nyartbeat.com/nyablog/2008/08/light-industry-building-a-new-kind-of-cinema-in-industry-city/|title=Light Industry: Building a New Kind of Cinema in Industry City {{!}} NYABlog {{!}} New York Art Beat|website=www.nyartbeat.com|language=en|access-date=2017-12-14}} Light Industry has the goal of creating a space for the curation and cultivation of a thriving, but fragmented art scene.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/movies/microcinemas-pack-a-special-mission-in-a-small-space.html|title=Microcinemas Pack a Special Mission in a Small Space|last=Lim|first=Dennis|date=2011-09-02|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-12-20|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
Awards
In 2017, Halter was awarded the Carl & Marlynn Thoma Art Foundation's Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art as an emerging writer.{{Cite web|url=https://thomafoundation.org/2017-recipients-rudolf-frieling-ed-halter/|title=2017 Recipients: Rudolf Frieling & Ed Halter|date=2017-11-21|website=Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-18}}
References
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External links
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