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@allenriley.com
· Jan 4
Allen’s semi-utopian internet manifesto (from November 2010 zine “Things Must Happen”):
Here's a site with info about Hypnogenesis, the new psychedelic space shooter that I am making with @andymakes.itch.io. The game uses video feedback as a core gameplay mechanic via Andrei Jay's Video Waaaves library.
www.hypnogenesis.xyz
www.hypnogenesis.xyz
Hypnogenesis
Hypnogenesis by Allen Riley and Andy Wallace
www.hypnogenesis.xyz
February 3, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Here's a site with info about Hypnogenesis, the new psychedelic space shooter that I am making with @andymakes.itch.io. The game uses video feedback as a core gameplay mechanic via Andrei Jay's Video Waaaves library.
www.hypnogenesis.xyz
www.hypnogenesis.xyz
I do miss having a Volvo 240 station wagon but the van rules
January 19, 2026 at 12:12 AM
I do miss having a Volvo 240 station wagon but the van rules
I have had to move my studio so many times since moving to Santa Cruz that I feel like I work for an eccentric artist who never makes anything and who I never see
January 18, 2026 at 2:58 AM
I have had to move my studio so many times since moving to Santa Cruz that I feel like I work for an eccentric artist who never makes anything and who I never see
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HYPNOGENESIS, a psychedelic space shooter by @andymakes.itch.io and @allenriley.bsky.social , created using video waaaves by Andrei Jay! An analogue visual feast, and yes, we'll have a CRT for display :)
January 6, 2026 at 5:58 PM
HYPNOGENESIS, a psychedelic space shooter by @andymakes.itch.io and @allenriley.bsky.social , created using video waaaves by Andrei Jay! An analogue visual feast, and yes, we'll have a CRT for display :)
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Over at Wonderville doing some more CRT work with @kleeb.bsky.social to get Hypnogenesis (my video feedback game with @allenriley.bsky.social) ready for @magfest.org!!!
It's been a minute since I played through the whole game!
It's been a minute since I played through the whole game!
December 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Over at Wonderville doing some more CRT work with @kleeb.bsky.social to get Hypnogenesis (my video feedback game with @allenriley.bsky.social) ready for @magfest.org!!!
It's been a minute since I played through the whole game!
It's been a minute since I played through the whole game!
I presented "Video Feedback as a Model for Emergent Narrative" at ICIDS 2025 – 18th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling.
Thinking about how to approach AI as a live signal medium like electronic music or video synthesis (and not as a source of content).
Thinking about how to approach AI as a live signal medium like electronic music or video synthesis (and not as a source of content).
December 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I presented "Video Feedback as a Model for Emergent Narrative" at ICIDS 2025 – 18th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling.
Thinking about how to approach AI as a live signal medium like electronic music or video synthesis (and not as a source of content).
Thinking about how to approach AI as a live signal medium like electronic music or video synthesis (and not as a source of content).
Just read my PhD application from 2021 and it is heartening to see that I either have done, or have concrete plans to do, pretty much everything I said I would do, although I have not necessarily made anyone aware of these things outside my immediate community
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Just read my PhD application from 2021 and it is heartening to see that I either have done, or have concrete plans to do, pretty much everything I said I would do, although I have not necessarily made anyone aware of these things outside my immediate community
I participated in this song-a-week challenge this fall at the encouragement of my friend Maggie Carson, and at the end you're supposed to go back and re-record one of the songs. Here is mine!
Allen Riley - Mousetrap, by Music Every Week
from the album MEW fall/winter 2025 compilation
musiceveryweek.bandcamp.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I participated in this song-a-week challenge this fall at the encouragement of my friend Maggie Carson, and at the end you're supposed to go back and re-record one of the songs. Here is mine!
I spent so much time sifting through VHS rips on the Internet Archive looking for this previously-lost Rhode Island TV commercial, but it was impossible to find because it presumably aired during times when nobody was taping. Thankfully someone finally found Super Credit Man, and I am at peace.
FOUND!!! SUPER CREDIT MAN COMMERCIAL!!! Express Cars and Credit. Rhode Island commercial.
YouTube video by Live Laugh Love
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I spent so much time sifting through VHS rips on the Internet Archive looking for this previously-lost Rhode Island TV commercial, but it was impossible to find because it presumably aired during times when nobody was taping. Thankfully someone finally found Super Credit Man, and I am at peace.
U2's The Edge has truly had a singular impact on the composition and style of hold music
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
U2's The Edge has truly had a singular impact on the composition and style of hold music
The day after his screening at @anindexof.bsky.social, Larry Gottheim met with filmmakers in Santa Cruz on Nov 9, 2025 to view and discuss works in progress. We looked at my work, as well as projects by Nena Hedrick, Matte Hewitt, and Alanna Nickles.
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The day after his screening at @anindexof.bsky.social, Larry Gottheim met with filmmakers in Santa Cruz on Nov 9, 2025 to view and discuss works in progress. We looked at my work, as well as projects by Nena Hedrick, Matte Hewitt, and Alanna Nickles.
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Saturday Nov 8: We're very excited to be hosting Larry Gottheim as part of the filmmaker's California tour celebrating his 2024 book "The Red Thread: Larry Gottheim and His Films." Q&A with guest curator @allenriley.bsky.social to follow the film screening.
www.indexical.org/events/2025-...
www.indexical.org/events/2025-...
An Evening with Larry Gottheim
<div>Join us for an evening with avant-garde luminary Larry Gottheim. Q&A with guest curator Allen Riley (PhD candidate in Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz) to follow the program. <br><b...
www.indexical.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Saturday Nov 8: We're very excited to be hosting Larry Gottheim as part of the filmmaker's California tour celebrating his 2024 book "The Red Thread: Larry Gottheim and His Films." Q&A with guest curator @allenriley.bsky.social to follow the film screening.
www.indexical.org/events/2025-...
www.indexical.org/events/2025-...
I know he is making a point about the cost of living, but as a person living in California who listens to the Brian Lehrer Show every day, I appreciate Mamdani's coinage of "a New Yorker who lives elsewhere"
November 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I know he is making a point about the cost of living, but as a person living in California who listens to the Brian Lehrer Show every day, I appreciate Mamdani's coinage of "a New Yorker who lives elsewhere"
Here's the recording of my talk "Arcade Games as Public Art" at MAGWest 2025 in San Jose, CA on August 8, 2025. @arcadecommons.org
MAGWest 2025: Arcade Games as Public Art
YouTube video by MAGFest
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Here's the recording of my talk "Arcade Games as Public Art" at MAGWest 2025 in San Jose, CA on August 8, 2025. @arcadecommons.org
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h/t to @annierau.bsky.social, who shared this tidbit during her remarks at our celebration: archive.org/details/the-...
November 4, 2025 at 1:54 AM
h/t to @annierau.bsky.social, who shared this tidbit during her remarks at our celebration: archive.org/details/the-...
"The limits of my cables are the limits of my world." (Wittgenstein, video art version)
October 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"The limits of my cables are the limits of my world." (Wittgenstein, video art version)
“It’s about the history and future of socially interactive video”
I have advanced to candidacy and my dissertation is titled “The Imagination Synthesizer”
October 4, 2025 at 4:22 AM
“It’s about the history and future of socially interactive video”
Have you seen every possible time on the clock? Are there rare times?
September 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Have you seen every possible time on the clock? Are there rare times?
I performed scenes from my as-yet-unproduced science fiction film Earth’s Basement with my collaborator Shannon Kerrigan as a video synthesis performance that also utilized a live musical scoring system I made that uses an LLM and MaxMSP to categorize dialogue and select musical cues
September 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I performed scenes from my as-yet-unproduced science fiction film Earth’s Basement with my collaborator Shannon Kerrigan as a video synthesis performance that also utilized a live musical scoring system I made that uses an LLM and MaxMSP to categorize dialogue and select musical cues
My favorite film at Telluride was “It Was Just An Accident” by Jafar Panahi
September 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
My favorite film at Telluride was “It Was Just An Accident” by Jafar Panahi
Dream work and meditation is very hip; the unconscious is Hollywood’s answer to AI
September 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Dream work and meditation is very hip; the unconscious is Hollywood’s answer to AI
Noticing the word “align” or “alignment” newly all over the place ways that seem transferred over from AI jargon
August 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Noticing the word “align” or “alignment” newly all over the place ways that seem transferred over from AI jargon
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Hypnogenesis is at Video Sync in Portland right now!
Come say hi to @allenriley.bsky.social who is showing it off and try your hand at our arcade game / interactive video feedback system!
#indiegames #videofeedback
Come say hi to @allenriley.bsky.social who is showing it off and try your hand at our arcade game / interactive video feedback system!
#indiegames #videofeedback
August 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Hypnogenesis is at Video Sync in Portland right now!
Come say hi to @allenriley.bsky.social who is showing it off and try your hand at our arcade game / interactive video feedback system!
#indiegames #videofeedback
Come say hi to @allenriley.bsky.social who is showing it off and try your hand at our arcade game / interactive video feedback system!
#indiegames #videofeedback
I was surprised to learn that the film majors in my media class have neither read or seen Lord of the Rings and seemingly have zero interest in it
August 6, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I was surprised to learn that the film majors in my media class have neither read or seen Lord of the Rings and seemingly have zero interest in it
One of my least favorite teaching moments is getting flustered about how to transition between concepts and either leaving out key information or accidentally saying the opposite of what I mean
August 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
One of my least favorite teaching moments is getting flustered about how to transition between concepts and either leaving out key information or accidentally saying the opposite of what I mean