#003 with Frank Lantz

from Alien Crash Site · host Santa Fe Institute, Caitlin McShea, Frank Lantz

Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below:2019 InterPlanetary Festival’s “Game Design Panel,” moderated by FrankInterPlanetary Transmissions. Volume 2: Stardust, featuring an introduction to the Game Design panel by FrankNYU Game CenterClaude Shannon’s “A Mathematical Theory of Communication.”Alien Crash Site interviews with GPT-3Frank’s Universal PaperclipsDavid ChapmanMarcel DuchampCaitlin’s favorite Jonathan Richman performanceMonday begins on Saturday by Arkady and Boris StrugatskyHard to Be a God also by the Strugatsky BrothersStanislaw LemPhilip K. DickJ.G. BallardSCP WikiAntimemeticsqntm

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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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