Ramon Llull builds a whole world explanation system upon permutations of divine categories. Peter Cariani observes that permutation is the most common way to create novel things, ideas or artefacts; but only _very_ rarely will categorically new things emerge that extend the alphabet of available primitives to permute.
In our semester course we want to look at these phenomena from our (computational) artistic practice: How do we bring together unforeseen things in our imagination? Aren't our software tools the optimal recombinant machines?