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Bra Trainer is a fictional teaching aid designed by Noam Toran to instruct adolescent boys to overcome the intricacies of opening the brassiere. When initiated the machine mechanically demonstrates the basic principles of clasp disengagement. Following a short pause the machine then re-secures the bra ready for the next demonstration. The piece is inspired from accounts of repressive post-war institutionalised sex education in the UK in which teachers were not allowed to touch any of the props (prophylactics, physical models of reproductive organs) unless using gloves or a stick. In collaboration with Nick Williamson.

"Form follows computation" captures a present phenomenon: Methodical overspill of programming is giving rise to a distinct aesthetic sensibility.

Meaning shifts as connotations change over time and reading becomes an act of writing if the connotations are purposefully reformulated. Accordingly, deducing meaning from the author's intention is an intentional fallacy [Wimsatt, Beardsley]. Followed to the extreme, context is everything.