Ed Halter

Ed Halter is a media critic, and founder of Light Industry in Brooklyn, New York. He has lectured at Harvard, NYU, and is currently teaching at Bard College.

His works have been featured in, most notably, Artforum, The Believer, Bookforum, Cinema Scope, frieze, Little Joe, Mousse, Rhizome, Triple Canopy, and Village Voice. Ed Halter is interested in the intersection of video games, digital media, and American experimental film.

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. He currently has an edited volume From The Third Eye with Seven Stories Press which will be published in January 2018. It's a compilation of essays from the Evergreen Review which were published from 1950-1970.

Ed 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 a mixed media 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, as reported by the New York Times.

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