William Hanley is a Brooklyn, New York-based writer and critic. He has written about art and culture—with an emphasis on early video and contemporary media culture—for a number of international publications and exhibition catalogues. He is formerly an editor of ArtInfo.com, where he contributed news and feature coverage of work in emerging media and the role of art institutions in the larger cultural topography of urban spaces. He has recently authored a catalogue chronicling site-specific work created at Brooklyn's Black & White gallery, and he is currently working a feature-length profile of French media artist and theorist Thierry Kuntzel to be published in November.