Ed Halter is a writer and curator living in New York City, and a founder and director of Light Industry, a venue for cinema in all its forms. His publications include From Sun Tzu to Xbox- War and Video Games (2006), Mass Effect- Art and the Internet in the 21st Century (2015, with Lauren Cornell), From the Third Eye- The Evergreen Review Film Reader (2018, with Barney Rosset) and over two decades of writing for 4Columns, Artforum, The Believer, Bookforum, Cinema Scope, The Criterion Collection, frieze, Little Joe, Mousse, The New Yorker, Rhizome, Triple Canopy, The Village Voice, and elsewhere. He has taught at Bard College since 2005, where he is currently Critic in Residence.