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Exciting news: @allenriley.com and I will be showing Hypnogenesis at the Experimental Games Showcase at @officialgdc.bsky.social

We'll be talking about using video synthesis techniques to make video feedback a core gameplay mechanic.

We'd love to show the game at your GDC party! Drop us a line!

I made a series of cell phone landscape videos processed with the Sandin Image Processor in 2010

Hypnogenesis Hypnogenesis by Allen Riley and Andy Wallace

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

I do miss having a Volvo 240 station wagon but the van rules

I did turn some of these on before moving them

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

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 :)

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!

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).

This is great!!!

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

The philosophical assumptions in AI are funny in a sad way until it becomes sad in a scary way

Allen Riley - Mousetrap, by Music Every Week from the album MEW fall/winter 2025 compilation

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!

YouTube video by Live Laugh Love FOUND!!! SUPER CREDIT MAN COMMERCIAL!!! Express Cars and Credit. Rhode Island commercial.

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.

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