Ed Halter is a film programmer, writer, and founder of
Light Industry
Light industry are Industry (economics), industries that usually are less Capital intensity, capital-intensive than heavy industry, heavy industries and are more consumer-oriented than business-oriented, as they typically produce smaller consum ...
, a
microcinema in
Brooklyn, New York. He currently teaches at
Bard College
Bard College is a private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains within the Hudson River Historic District ...
, where he is Critic in Residence.
Criticism
His writing has been featured in ''
Artforum'', ''
The Believer'', ''
Bookforum
''Bookforum'' is an American book review magazine devoted to books and the discussion of literature. After announcing that it would cease publication in December 2022, it reported its relaunch under the direction of ''The Nation'' magazine six mo ...
'', ''Cinema Scope'', ''
frieze
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'', ''Little Joe'', ''Mousse'',
Rhizome
In botany and dendrology, a rhizome ( ) is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and Shoot (botany), shoots from its Node (botany), nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from ...
, Triple Canopy, and ''
Village Voice.'' Halter is interested in the intersection of video games, digital media, and American
experimental film
Experimental film or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that does not apply standard cinematic conventions, instead adopting Non-narrative film, non-narrative forms or alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working. Many e ...
.
Books
His first book ''
From Sun Tzu to Xbox'' was released in 2006. 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.
Film programming
Halter has programmed and worked on various film festivals, particularly the
New York Underground Film Festival, 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
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, 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
External links
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Living people
Bard College faculty
American film critics
Year of birth missing (living people)