In a multimedia lecture based on his book From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and
Video Games, Ed Halter explores the intricate relationships between the
video game industry and American military culture. Examining U.S.
military projects like America's Army and Full Spectrum Warrior, commercial games
from Battlezone to Conflict: Desert Storm, as well as mods, artworks,
homebrewed games, and videogames from the Muslim world, Halter offers a
political history of the video game and a powerful argument about its
role in the way we have come to think about war.

New York-based writer and media programmer Ed Halter is a film critic
for The Village Voice and a frequent contributor to other publications,
including Arthur, The Believer, and Filmmaker. Former director of the
New York Underground Film Festival, he has curated events at the Museum of
Modern Art, New York, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Cinematexas,
and is currently a visiting professor in the department of Film and Electronic
Arts at Bard College.