Allen @allenriley.com · 11/09/2026I’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 010
Allen @allenriley.com · 10/09/2026Yeah here’s my original DJ Big Party italo mix made in iTunes in 2015 m.soundcloud.com/big_party/bi...m.soundcloud.comThe Best Of Big PartyStream The Best Of Big Party by big party on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud. 110
Allen @allenriley.com · 09/09/2026When I see "hybrid theory/practice" in academic art: hybrid theory mentioned 010
Allen @allenriley.com · 03/09/2026Killscreen did an article about Hypnogenesis, the video synthesizer game I made in collaboration with @andymakes.itch.iokillscreen.comHypnogenesis: bullet hell as video synthesisAllen Riley and Andy Wallace's arcade experiment heads toward Steam. 051
Allen @allenriley.com · 02/09/2026There should be an artist residency that is entirely devoted to organizing hard drives 040
Allen @allenriley.com · 01/09/2026@bennett4senate.bsky.social is Santa Cruz voting guide cool people version for me 010
Allen @allenriley.com · 27/08/2026The 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"!killscreen.comStep Right Up, Wonderville's new fortune-teller cabinetVector graphics, an animatronic barker and a custom trackball, playable now in Bushwick. 020
Reposted by AllenAndyMakes @andymakes.itch.io · 15/08/2026Speaking 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! 041
Reposted by AllenAndyMakes @andymakes.itch.io · 02/07/2026If 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...youtube.comHypnogenesis by Allen Riley and Andy WallaceYouTube video by Allen Riley 0136
Allen @allenriley.com · 15/06/2026I 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. 050
Allen @allenriley.com · 28/05/2026I 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) 330
Allen @allenriley.com · 28/05/2026I 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 130
Allen @allenriley.com · 18/05/2026There 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!youtu.beInfinite Pumpkins: Songs by The Smashing Pumpkins – Wonderville, October 8, 2022YouTube video by Allen Riley 000
Allen @allenriley.com · 08/05/2026Violin Tuned DEAD does seem like a legitimate VHS era horror title 000
Allen @allenriley.com · 08/05/2026I appreciate the framing of Stamping in the Studio as analog horror 100
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 050
Allen @allenriley.com · 14/04/2026I saw Mindflayer, Action Trio, Noise Nomads, Kites/Can't, and Shadowmaps at an on-campus apartment at Hampshire College in 2003mindflayer1.bandcamp.comIT'S ALWAYS 1999, by MINDFLAYER21 track album 030
Reposted by AllenAndyMakes @andymakes.itch.io · 07/04/2026Hypnogenesis 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 #indiegamesstore.steampowered.comHypnogenesis on SteamHypnogenesis is an experimental video feedback bullet hell game in which arcade gameplay is integrated with the controls of a video synthesizer. 0186
Reposted by AllenCarol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io · 14/03/2026This 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. ♥️ 2819
Allen @allenriley.com · 30/03/2026Me landing at LGA youtu.be/DgLS1kHiVcA?...youtu.beNeil Cicierega - AC/VC (Music Video)YouTube video by Cheesy Potatoson 010
Allen @allenriley.com · 29/03/2026I 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 031
Reposted by AllenAndyMakes @andymakes.itch.io · 24/03/2026I nearly forgot: @allenriley.com did something very important at GDC 051
Allen @allenriley.com · 24/03/2026This is goodyoutube.comSynth VTR - 10 / Hannoda TakuYouTube video by Hannoda Taku 000
Allen @allenriley.com · 20/03/2026I 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. 110
Reposted by AllenAndyMakes @andymakes.itch.io · 16/03/2026What 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) 3101
Allen @allenriley.com · 14/03/2026Got 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 060
Allen @allenriley.com · 13/03/2026Andy 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. 0134
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. 061
Allen @allenriley.com · 09/03/2026Hypnogenesis, 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! 051
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.xyzhypnogenesis.xyzHypnogenesisHypnogenesis by Allen Riley and Andy Wallace 010
Allen @allenriley.com · 22/02/2026Allen Learns Video Synthesis, 2010/2026 (cutting some multichannel edits of work that has never been displayed) 010
Reposted by AllenAndyMakes @andymakes.itch.io · 18/02/2026Exciting 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! 1137
Allen @allenriley.com · 12/02/2026I made a series of cell phone landscape videos processed with the Sandin Image Processor in 2010 062
Allen @allenriley.com · 03/02/2026Here'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.xyzhypnogenesis.xyzHypnogenesisHypnogenesis by Allen Riley and Andy Wallace 041
Allen @allenriley.com · 18/01/2026I 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 240
Reposted by AllenArcade Commons @arcadecommons.org · 06/01/2026HYPNOGENESIS, 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 :) 141
Reposted by AllenAndyMakes @andymakes.itch.io · 29/12/2025Over 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! 082
Allen @allenriley.com · 12/12/2025I 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). 040
Allen @allenriley.com · 18/11/2025Just 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 020
Allen @allenriley.com · 18/11/2025The philosophical assumptions in AI are funny in a sad way until it becomes sad in a scary way 000
Allen @allenriley.com · 17/11/2025I 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.comAllen Riley - Mousetrap, by Music Every Weekfrom the album MEW fall/winter 2025 compilation 000
Allen @allenriley.com · 16/11/2025I 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.youtube.comFOUND!!! SUPER CREDIT MAN COMMERCIAL!!! Express Cars and Credit. Rhode Island commercial.YouTube video by Live Laugh Love 030
Allen @allenriley.com · 10/11/2025He is very focused on resource management and accumulation, has consistent and frugal spending habits, and is very responsible! 120