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Allen @allenriley.com · 11/09/2026
I’m an eyewitness to the moment Flight 175 crashed into the second tower. My mom called me repeatedly before 9am, eventually waking me up saying, “Allen, the building outside your window is on fire” into the answering machine, and I got up and watched the explosion from my dorm window
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Allen @allenriley.com · 10/09/2026
Yeah here’s my original DJ Big Party italo mix made in iTunes in 2015 m.soundcloud.com/big_party/bi...
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The Best Of Big Party
Stream The Best Of Big Party by big party on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
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Allen @allenriley.com · 09/09/2026
When I see "hybrid theory/practice" in academic art: hybrid theory mentioned
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Allen @allenriley.com · 03/09/2026
Killscreen did an article about Hypnogenesis, the video synthesizer game I made in collaboration with @andymakes.itch.io
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Hypnogenesis: bullet hell as video synthesis
Allen Riley and Andy Wallace's arcade experiment heads toward Steam.
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Allen @allenriley.com · 02/09/2026
There should be an artist residency that is entirely devoted to organizing hard drives
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Allen @allenriley.com · 01/09/2026
@bennett4senate.bsky.social is Santa Cruz voting guide cool people version for me
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Allen @allenriley.com · 27/08/2026
The new game at @wonderville.nyc was produced through an @arcadecommons.org open call I wrote called "Infinite Continues: Collective Achievement Arcade Cabinet" seeking designs for a game progressed by many players over time. I was very surprised and delighted by the proposal for "Step Right Up"!
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Step Right Up, Wonderville's new fortune-teller cabinet
Vector graphics, an animatronic barker and a custom trackball, playable now in Bushwick.
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AndyMakes @andymakes.itch.io · 15/08/2026
Speaking of Hypnogenesis, @allenriley.com brought it all the way to the Games & Demos Session at Foundations of Digital Games 2026 in Copenhagen this past week! Thank you to Dooley Murphy for curating!
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AndyMakes @andymakes.itch.io · 02/07/2026
If you're curious about Hypnogenesis, a video feedback space shooter, @allenriley.com edited our @exgs.bsky.social talk from @officialgdc.bsky.social into a clean video with lots of game footage! #indiegames #videofeedback www.youtube.com/watch?v=n38C...
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Hypnogenesis by Allen Riley and Andy Wallace
YouTube video by Allen Riley
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Allen @allenriley.com · 15/06/2026
I once again consult my Triangle of Despair® life improvement model first established in 2012: Instructions: Each of the three corners (Confused, Discouraged, Unhealthy) leads to the others. Remove one corner to break the triangle.
A close-up photograph of a crumpled thermal receipt paper print-out of a diagram labeled "Triangle of Despair." The diagram is a faint grey triangle with a skull emoji in the center. The three points of the triangle are labeled: Confused, Discouraged, Unhealthy.
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Allen @allenriley.com · 28/05/2026
What's the agenda for staff week?
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Allen @allenriley.com · 28/05/2026
David says this looks like a scene from an adventure game
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Allen @allenriley.com · 28/05/2026
I apparently made this MS Paint illustration of the Dream House by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela which I emailed to myself on February 12, 2010 (dh.bmp)
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Allen @allenriley.com · 28/05/2026
I pretty much had zero or negative interest in the idea of art before seeing the Dream House in 2002 and I still don’t really understand or make art that isn’t somehow like the Dream House
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Allen @allenriley.com · 18/05/2026
There was a lot more crowd footage of my 2022 Smashing Pumpkins cover show than I realized. I learned a lot about performing live music doing this!
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Infinite Pumpkins: Songs by The Smashing Pumpkins – Wonderville, October 8, 2022
YouTube video by Allen Riley
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Allen @allenriley.com · 08/05/2026
Violin Tuned DEAD does seem like a legitimate VHS era horror title
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Allen @allenriley.com · 08/05/2026
I appreciate the framing of Stamping in the Studio as analog horror
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Allen @allenriley.com · 08/05/2026
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Allen @allenriley.com · 14/04/2026
"I AM THE BEST ARTIST René" by René Moncada on West Broadway between Spring and Broome Street circa 1986 appears in the 1988 Superman arcade game by Taito
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Allen @allenriley.com · 14/04/2026
I saw Mindflayer, Action Trio, Noise Nomads, Kites/Can't, and Shadowmaps at an on-campus apartment at Hampshire College in 2003
mindflayer1.bandcamp.com
IT'S ALWAYS 1999, by MINDFLAYER
21 track album
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AndyMakes @andymakes.itch.io · 07/04/2026
Hypnogenesis has a wishlist page on Steam! After the response that @allenriley.com and I got at GDC we decided to make a home version! I think we're the only game on Steam that mentions Nam Jun Paik in the description. store.steampowered.com/app/4545390 #indiedev #videofeedback #indiegames
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Hypnogenesis on Steam
Hypnogenesis is an experimental video feedback bullet hell game in which arcade gameplay is integrated with the controls of a video synthesizer.
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Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io · 14/03/2026
This year’s @exgs.bsky.social Experimental Games Showcase at @officialgdc.bsky.social was such a joy to help organize and be a part of. Thank you so much to everyone who presented, organized, showed up to pack the room, and came to demo. What an absolute honor to work with these people. ♥️
The 2026 ExGS cohort at GDC
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Allen @allenriley.com · 30/03/2026
Me landing at LGA youtu.be/DgLS1kHiVcA?...
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Neil Cicierega - AC/VC (Music Video)
YouTube video by Cheesy Potatoson
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Allen @allenriley.com · 29/03/2026
I discussed the “Oddly Satisfying” video/performance program I curated for @anindexof.bsky.social at the 2026 Society for Cinema and Media Studies featuring Erma Fiend, Blake Andrews and Nina Sobell
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AndyMakes @andymakes.itch.io · 24/03/2026
I nearly forgot: @allenriley.com did something very important at GDC
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Allen @allenriley.com · 24/03/2026
This is good
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Synth VTR - 10 / Hannoda Taku
YouTube video by Hannoda Taku
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Allen @allenriley.com · 20/03/2026
I like to think that if Kurt Cobain lived longer he would have started a post-Nirvana techno grunge band inspired by PIL in 1997 called Transcendence Inc.
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AndyMakes @andymakes.itch.io · 16/03/2026
What an amazing GDC! @allenriley.com and I got to present Hypnogenesis to a huge room of people at the @exgs.bsky.social! At the demo session, the Little Raven Gallery & the @boshis.place x @syzygysf.com party, we had 244 play sessions on the machine! (photo by @jakeweidner.bsky.social)
Me and allen standing at a GDC podium
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Allen @allenriley.com · 14/03/2026
Got lunch in a ramen place in SF and every song on the radio was by the exact same Jack Johnson style singer with lyrics like “transactions smooth as butter”, I asked and it was indeed AI
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Allen @allenriley.com · 13/03/2026
Andy Wallace and I showed and discussed Hypnogenesis at a video game concept art exhibition curated by Steph Ng and Meha Murthy at Little Raven Gallery in San Francisco on March 12, 2026. The show also featured microtalks by game designers including Richard Lemarchand and Bridget Winn.
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Allen @allenriley.com · 12/03/2026
@andymakes.itch.io and I presented Hypnogenesis at The Intersection of Art and Technology on March 10, 2026. The game is on display until March 14.
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Allen @allenriley.com · 09/03/2026
Hypnogenesis, the video feedback arcade game I made with @andymakes.itch.io is going on a San Francisco tour from March 10-14, 2026 with events at the Intersection of Art & Technology, Little Raven, Experimental Games Showcase at GDC, and boshi's place x Syzygy!
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Allen @allenriley.com · 27/02/2026
@andymakes.itch.io and I are presenting our new video feedback game Hypnogenesis at the Experimental Games Showcase and we would love to participate in what you are doing! hypnogenesis.xyz
hypnogenesis.xyz
Hypnogenesis
Hypnogenesis by Allen Riley and Andy Wallace
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Allen @allenriley.com · 22/02/2026
Allen Learns Video Synthesis, 2010/2026 (cutting some multichannel edits of work that has never been displayed)
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AndyMakes @andymakes.itch.io · 18/02/2026
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!
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Allen @allenriley.com · 12/02/2026
I made a series of cell phone landscape videos processed with the Sandin Image Processor in 2010
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Allen @allenriley.com · 03/02/2026
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
hypnogenesis.xyz
Hypnogenesis
Hypnogenesis by Allen Riley and Andy Wallace
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Allen @allenriley.com · 19/01/2026
I do miss having a Volvo 240 station wagon but the van rules
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Allen @allenriley.com · 18/01/2026
I did turn some of these on before moving them
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Allen @allenriley.com · 18/01/2026
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Allen @allenriley.com · 18/01/2026
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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Arcade Commons @arcadecommons.org · 06/01/2026
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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AndyMakes @andymakes.itch.io · 29/12/2025
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!
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Allen @allenriley.com · 12/12/2025
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).
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Allen @allenriley.com · 03/12/2025
This is great!!!
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Allen @allenriley.com · 18/11/2025
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
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Allen @allenriley.com · 18/11/2025
The philosophical assumptions in AI are funny in a sad way until it becomes sad in a scary way
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Allen @allenriley.com · 17/11/2025
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!
musiceveryweek.bandcamp.com
Allen Riley - Mousetrap, by Music Every Week
from the album MEW fall/winter 2025 compilation
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Allen @allenriley.com · 16/11/2025
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.
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FOUND!!! SUPER CREDIT MAN COMMERCIAL!!! Express Cars and Credit. Rhode Island commercial.
YouTube video by Live Laugh Love
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Allen @allenriley.com · 10/11/2025
He is very focused on resource management and accumulation, has consistent and frugal spending habits, and is very responsible!
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