This is a symposium at UCLA from 2004 that I came across while doing a search for “systems art.” I haven’t had a chance to listen to the proceedings yet, but they sound tasty.

The description I’m most intrigued about is Sue Lewak’s, UCLA Dept. of English.

“‘I’m sure those are not the right words’: The Language of ‘No-Sense’and Self -Organizing Systems in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”

Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, approaches the idea of self – organization through the dissolution of macroworld rules. Indeed, it is through Alice’s negation of conventional rules that she develops the ability to “form” a coherent microworld system. Thus, as Alice’s gradual acclimation into the wondrous language of “no-sense” indicates, self-organization at the microscale lies in the ability to perceive an existing system, rather than in the creation of a new one.

visit the site here:
Self-Organizing Systems: rEvolutionary Art, Science, and Literature (ELO)

and the accompanying website here