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ED HALTER is a founder and director of Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, New York, and Critic in Residence in the Film and Electronic Arts department at Bard College. His writing has appeared in 4Columns, Afterall, Artforum, The Believer, Bookforum, Cinema Scope, frieze, Little Joe, Mousse, Parkett, Rhizome, Triple Canopy, the Village Voice and elsewhere. From 1995 to 2005, he programmed and oversaw the New York Underground Film Festival, and he has curated screenings and exhibitions for Artists Space, BAMcinématek, the Flaherty Film Seminar, the ICA, London, Miguel Abreu Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, PARTICIPANT INC., Tate Modern, and the Walker Art Center, as well as Greater New York 2010 at MoMA PS1 and the 2012 Whitney Biennial. His publications include From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Videogames (2006), Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the 21st Century (2015), co-edited with Lauren Cornell, and From the Third Eye: The Evergreen Review Film Reader(2018), co-edited with Barney Rosset. His writing has been awarded an Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (2009) and the Arts Writing Award in Digital Art from the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation (2017).