Ed Halter

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Ed Halter
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)curator, writer

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. [1]

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Criticism

His writing has been featured in Artforum , The Believer , Bookforum , Cinema Scope, frieze , Little Joe, Mousse, Rhizome, Triple Canopy, and Village Voice. [2] 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. [3] 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. [4]

Film programming

Halter has programmed and worked on various film festivals, particularly the New 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 in Greenpoint, 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]

Awards

In 2017, Halter was awarded the Carl & Marlynn Thoma Art Foundation's Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art as an emerging writer. [10]

References

  1. ↑ "Faculty". FILM & ELECTRONIC ARTS. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  2. ↑ Consulting, Business Technology. "CCS Bard | Ed Halter". www.bard.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-12-15. Retrieved 2017-12-14.{{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  3. ↑ "bio : ed halter dot com". www.edhalter.com. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  4. ↑ "From the Third Eye". sevenstories.com. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  5. ↑ "The End of the New York Underground Film Festival" . Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  6. ↑ "Cinema as an Event: An Interview with Light Industry's Ed Halter" . Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  7. ↑ "Light Industry". www.lightindustry.org. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  8. ↑ "Light Industry: Building a New Kind of Cinema in Industry City | NYABlog | New York Art Beat". www.nyartbeat.com. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  9. ↑ Lim, Dennis (2011-09-02). "Microcinemas Pack a Special Mission in a Small Space". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2017-12-20.
  10. ↑ "2017 Recipients: Rudolf Frieling & Ed Halter". Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation. 2017-11-21. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
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