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).

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

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!

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.

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.

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"

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?

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

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 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 🥲

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

RIP Iron Bloke!

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

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

Actual conversation just overheard: “I’m John” “I’m Jim” “Joe? “Jim”

Iron Bloke

I've been working on a video feedback game with @allenriley.bsky.social called Hypnogenesis! I'll be flying out to California again in a week to keep jamming on it! The whole thing uses video waaaves by andrei jay to emulate the feedback. #screenshotsaturday #indiegames #generativeart

I looked up this provocative graffiti featured in the Kurt Cobain movie “Montage of Heck” and it seems to be a reference to this great 1984 record by the East Bay punk band Part Time Christians youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I like to imagine that, if Kurt Cobain were alive in 2025 to see the proliferation of Nirvana t-shirts, he would say, “The Nirvana brand is a global marketing phenomenon”

Olympia, WA audience member review of DOOMED: “like Jandek and Flipper dragged through the mud”

The most relatable Beach Boys lyric is “sometimes I feel very sad” and the least relatable is “have you ever been in an airplane when the flying circus comes to town?”

Good or bad glad sad it’s all gonna pass, so it’s ok, let’s all play and enjoy while it lasts

I made a real-time dialogue-reactive live scoring system that uses guitar and synth samples that I recorded. I'm reading from a script that I wrote in 2011 for a sci-fi soap opera called Earth's Basement. This is part of a group of projects I'm doing about narrative filmmaking as playable media.

I really hope I can make some time to post on social media about all of the cool stuff I have been doing for the past 20 years

For a long time I thought Peloton and Palentir were the same thing

Looking through David Lynch's books and digging this food chain of fear eats soul, soul eats chicken soup. I don't know if this works out timeline-wise, but it's a funny idea to think that "garmonbozia" from Fire Walk With Me might have been a joke about Chicken Soup for the Soul.

I drank way too much coffee today and I am having intrusive thoughts about an imaginary family-style chain restaurant from the 90s called the Cosmic Canteen…Where the Ketchup is Green!™

“Unprecedented” and “existential” have become unexceptional words

The lack of easements in California parking lots astounds me

Having seen the before and after of AI homework, an important detail is that the student experience of college was already destroyed by corporate greed, massive lectures, asynchronous courses, lack of affordable housing, etc.

Nina Sobell and Ed Bear in Santa Cruz

It's depressingly obvious that undermining the ground truth of traditional communication technologies by pushing artificial intelligence products goes hand in hand with pushing biometric validation products

Word on the street is that there are two copies of Deep Breakfast on cassette for $2 at Streetlight Records in Santa Cruz

We premiered a new visual album by Taku Hannoda at @anindexof.bsky.social last night

I hath advanced