OPPORTUNITY: BARBARIC AWP SEATTLE 2014 FIELD NOTES
[h5] The OS Wants YOU! to write journalistic / field notes type accounts of your days in Seattle, as we are unable to attend. [/h5] These could take very different approaches: On the one hand, The OS is interested in running naturally
AWESOME CREATOR(S): Sometimes a Doubled Mind (Makes An Astral Temple For A Donkey Goddess): Eliza Swann in conversation with Laura Zuspan
[box] Editor's Note: I am excited to reenter the next phase of our wonderful Awesome Creators series, began on Exit Strata in 2012, with this expansive, exploratory conversation between Eliza Swann and Laura Zuspan, penned for us by Swann - who
CREATIVE PRACTICE AT THE CROSSROADS :: 'PERFORMANCE SCIENCE' AT SYMPHONY SPACE
[line] [articlequote] Crossroads is conceived of as a communications project. I had been presenting the science of climate change and sustainability to people of all flavors for five years
A VERY SPECIAL INVITATION to THE 3rd ANNUAL POETRY MONTH 30-on-30-in-30 SERIES
The Operating System is thrilled to invite you to participate in the 3rd Annual 30-on-30-in-30 Poetry Month Celebration! In this series, we invite creative people from a range of backgrounds to share a story about how their work has been
UNPACKING DAVID LANG's "THE SO-CALLED LAWS OF NATURE" with SO PERCUSSION's Adam Sliwinski
Adam Sliwinski (percussionist, teacher, conductor, and member of the groundbreaking ensemble So Percussion), brings us this insightful, deep analysis of composer David Lang's The So-Called Laws of Nature, which the group will perform this weekend at Zankel Hall. The evening, aptly titled
WELCOME! THE OPERATING SYSTEM IS REBOOTING, PLEASE STAND BY
GREETINGS FRIENDS! We're so happy you are here. The Operating System is in the process of shifting to its new home here, as we say goodbye to our beta test iteration, Exit Strata. For the meanwhile, you will continue to
ALL LIT UP! :: NEW CITIES SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT
What does your literary city look like? : A mini research-tour of our lit-up landscape. Meant, in turn, to uplift the spaces and people who make it thrive. Read it again, in the imperative tense and you'll get our goal
AWESOME CREATORS :: BAYO AKOMOLAFE and the ECONOMICS OF HAPPINESS
This is Bayo Akomolafe's plenary talk at ISEC's Economics of Happiness conference held in Byron Bay, Australia in March 2013. Bayo is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Covenant University, Nigeria. For more information about the conference or
FIELD NOTES :: EVOLUTIONARY NEUROBIOLOGIST MARK CHANGIZI :: The Colossal Pile of Jibberish Behind Discovery
Mark Changizi is an evolutionary neurobiologist and director of human cognition at 2AI Labs. He is the author of The Brain from 25000 Feet, The Vision Revolution, and his newest book, Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed
WORD / PRINT :: PETER MILNE GREINER :: 500 Words About the Cover of Andrew Durbin's REVELER
DNA recognizes itself in the eyes of other people and in animals, independent of whatever sense of self an organism has that arises, perhaps, from an orientation in Earth’s bizarre sentience gradient. For example when you make eye contact with
