This resolutely mundane project proposed some appendages to the existing toast rack in the house I was living in at the time. The intention of the project was to precisely explore the qualities of an environment that actively provokes customisation from its user - an crucial element in the interactivity of Gordon Pask's Musicolour and Cedric Price's Generator.
The toast rack is given the ability to sense when it is loaded with toast. The longer the toast is left on it (and the colder the toast is getting) the more agitated the toast rack becomes. It starts tapping on the table. The longer the toast is left the harder and more freequent the tapping becomes. If the toast was left there all week the toast rack would be bashing on the table quite furiously to the extent where it would make an indent on the table. Over time these indents would form a palimpsest on the table which would be a recording of its use. Thus the toast rack reacts to its use in order to provoke me to (choose to) act.
drawings: http://picasaweb.google.com/bensweeting/ToastRack20072008#
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