003: Frank Lantz

This week Frank Lantz – game designer, director of NYU’s Game Center, founder of Area/Code Games and the soon to be launched Hello Planet – joins us to talk about the role of art for progress (or contra-progress!), the possibility space of limitation, metarationality, and a mysterious Zone-find of his own, which he actually possesses…

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Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below:

• 2019 InterPlanetary Festival’s “Game Design Panel,” moderated by Frank

• InterPlanetary Transmissions. Volume 2: Stardust, featuring an introduction to the Game Design panel by Frank

• NYU Game Center

• Claude Shannon’s “A Mathematical Theory of Communication.”

• Alien Crash Site interviews with GPT-3

• Frank’s Universal Paperclips

• David Chapman

• Marcel Duchamp

• Caitlin’s favorite Jonathan Richman performance

• Monday begins on Saturday by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

• Hard to Be a God also by the Strugatsky Brothers

• Stanislaw Lem

• Philip K. Dick

• J.G. Ballard

• SCP Wiki

  • Antimemetics

  • qntm