The Evolving Contraption at MOCA in Los Angeles launched a land art campaign to save worms and study wormholes and supplied portals into genomic science at MIT and artists' studios. As the Automatoggler, the contraption morphed into mechanized structures for participatory art, sound and universe pondering. LOIS recalls the organ that viewers played to the visual tune of soldiers marching, or the horse-drawn constellations also drawn by MOCA passersby, as well as the input-output machine with intangible results, and toast! One of those machines did generate tasty, edible, buttered toast...