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@allenriley.bsky.social

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Mostly commenting on songs overheard in the coffee shop http://allen-riley.com

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Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · Jan 4

Allen’s semi-utopian internet manifesto (from November 2010 zine “Things Must Happen”):

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Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · 12d

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

Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · Feb 17

I have advanced to candidacy and my dissertation is titled “The Imagination Synthesizer”

Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · 17d

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

Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · 22d

"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

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Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · 29d

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

Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · 29d

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Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · 29d

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

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Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · Sep 3

My favorite film at Telluride was “It Was Just An Accident” by Jafar Panahi

Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · Sep 1

Dream work and meditation is very hip; the unconscious is Hollywood’s answer to AI

Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · Aug 27

Noticing the word “align” or “alignment” newly all over the place ways that seem transferred over from AI jargon

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AndyMakes @andymakes.itch.io · Aug 15

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

Hypnogenesis game on a CRT with a wooden arcade console

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Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · Aug 1

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

Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · Jul 31

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

Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · Jul 31

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

Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

From 1996: Meet the man who invented a wearable computer

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Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

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Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

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AndyMakes @andymakes.itch.io · Jul 28

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

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Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · Jul 24

Hulk Hogan - Hulkster in Heaven

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Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · Jul 24

RIP Iron Bloke!

Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · Jul 7

Iron Bloke

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AndyMakes @andymakes.itch.io · Jul 21

A vision of video feedback hell appearing at the end of Hypnogenesis.

@allenriley.bsky.social deigned all of the video art and levels (which are synonyms in this game!) & I worked on the engine.

We had an amazing week working on the project, which uses Video Waaaves to emulate feedback.

#gamedev

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AndyMakes @andymakes.itch.io · Jul 17

Out in California with @allenriley.bsky.social working on our feedback game, Hypnogenesis!

Two wonderful and alluring men sitting on either side of a CRT that says "HYPNOGENESIS"

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Allen @allenriley.bsky.social · Jul 11

Actual conversation just overheard:

“I’m John”
“I’m Jim”
“Joe?
“Jim”