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He is very focused on resource management and accumulation, has consistent and frugal spending habits, and is very responsible!

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.

An Evening with Larry Gottheim <div>Join us for an evening with avant-garde luminary Larry Gottheim. Q&amp;A with guest curator Allen Riley (PhD candidate in Film &amp; Digital Media at  UC Santa Cruz) to follow the program. <br><b...

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-...

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"

YouTube video by MAGFest MAGWest 2025: Arcade Games as Public Art

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

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)

“It’s about the history and future of socially interactive video”

Have you seen every possible time on the clock? Are there rare times?

"Rats are rhizomes. Burrows are too, in all of their function shelter, supply, movement, evasion, and breakout[...] You can never get rid of ants because they form an animal rhizome that can rebound time and again after most of it has been destroyed." - Deleuze and Guatarri, A Thousand Plateaus

ISM Festival, Olympia WA
September 14, 2025
Thanks to Ben Kapp for the photos and Katy for the video clip !

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

Weirdly, language/writing is being positioned as “surface” and coaching/performance is where the interior of the film is detected

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

Hypnogenesis game on a CRT with a wooden arcade console

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

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

One of my students used "stop trying to make fetch happen" to explain language games 🥲

Don't let him know that The Logic of Sensation by Deleuze was on David Lynch's bookshelf!

YouTube video by TODAY From 1996: Meet the man who invented a wearable computer

I also played them this 1996 news coverage of Steve Mann making mobile video calls from the grocery store to illustrate my point that the roots of the present reach deep into the past, but the world also became the way it is very recently

We’ll discuss on Thursday but my hunch is that they dug the film’s treatment of artificial intelligence and systemic oppression and its fulfillment of y2k nostalgia

I screened The Matrix for my media art class today and remembering how I first saw this in the theater in 1999 without having seen a trailer or knowing anything about it at all, so I was completely shocked when Neo’s mouth seals shut

A bit more Hypnogenesis footage. Another level with feedback & level design by @allenriley.bsky.social

Peering through the noise is a key game mechanic. This might look completely impossible to parse, but it's easier than you might think while still remaining challenging.

#gamedev #generativeart

Hulk’s autobiography is very interesting because he explains kayfabe and then seamlessly shifts into kayfabe

RIP Iron Bloke!