"push the red button" is an interactive installation that examines collective meanings of technological control and ideology.

Participants are presented with a large, illuminated red button--emblematic of a control button or button of destruction. when pressed, the button retrieves a phrase from a google search on "push the red button," "push my red button," or "the red button."

Placing the participant within the realm of controller, the red button interface will randomly lock on a search result, denying the participant the ability to have control and alter the search result.
Confronted with issues such as war, control, freedom, and sexuality, participants are left to question the implications of what pushing the red button actually executes.

"push the red button" was created with arduino hardware / software and custom software in processing--both are freeware, open source technologies.