A rough list - that I will be categorising and annotating further - of projects and people that I'm researching or that have broad relevance to my work.
Ismail Farouk's work
http://www.ismailfarouk.com/home/
http://saartsemerging.org/artist/ismail-farouk/
Cildo Meireles' "Insertions into Ideological Circuits"
http://www.brazilnetwork.org/statics/media/visualarts/works/cildo.htm
http://www.brazilnetwork.org/statics/media/visualarts/texts/text2.htm
Cascoland
http://www.cascoland.com/2006/info/missionst.html
Playpump
http://www.playpumps.org
Freeplay
http://www.freeplayenergy.com
Afrigadget blog
http://www.afrigadget.com/
Ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com
Guerilla Innovation
http://www.guerrilla-innovation.com/
Mark Lombardi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lombardi
Pierre Huyghe's The Third Memory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Huyghe
Trevor Paglen's Black World
http://www.bellwethergallery.com/current_01.cfm?fid=305
Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave
http://www.artangel.org.uk/pages/past/01/01_deller.htm
The Yesmen
http://www.theyesmen.org/
Beehive Collective
http://www.beehivecollective.org
SUPERFLEX
http://www.superflex.net/
Hans Ubermorgan
http://www.ubermorgen.com
Google Will Eat Itself http://www.gwei.org
Amazon Noir http://www.amazon-noir.com
Judi Wertheim's Brinco Shoes project
http://www.insite05.org/internal.php?pid=7-214
Michael Rakowitz
http://www.michaelrakowitz.com/
Bureau of Inverse Technology
http://www.bureauit.org/
Critical Art Ensemble
http://www.critical-art.net
Platform
http://www.platformlondon.org/
The Interrogative Design Group
http://web.mit.edu/idg/
Computing Culture
MIT http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/compcult/
Dunne and Raby
http://www.dunneandraby.co.uk/
Ivrea
http://www.interaction-ivrea.it/en/index.asp
PLAY
http://www.tii.se/play/
Telegarden
http://www.usc.edu/dept/garden/
One Laptop Per Child project
http://laptop.org/
Thinkcycle
http://www.thinkcycle.org
Practical Action
http://www.practicalaction.org
FON
http://www.fon.com
Amy Smith
http://web.mit.edu/invent/a-winners/a-smith.html
RTMark
http://www.rtmark.com
Bill Gaver
http://www.rca.ac.uk/pages/research/dr_william_gaver_609.html
Defective by Design
http://www.defectivebydesign.org
Crimethinc
http://www.crimethinc.com
World Changing
http://www.worldchanging.com
Book crossings
http://www.bookcrossing.com/
Institute for Applied Autonomy
http://www.appliedautonomy.com/
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009609.php
Furniture from free postal packaging
http://www.fedexfurniture.com/
The Return Policy Project by Thomas Charveriat
http://www.guerrilla-innovation.com/archives/2005/02/000313.php
GPS-chip implanting gun
http://www.backfire.dk/EMPIRENORTH/newsite/products_en001.htm
IRATIONAL.ORG
"supports independent artists and
organisations that need to maintain mission critical
information systems. These 'Irationalists' create work
that pushes the boundaries between the corporate realms
of business, art and engineering."
http://www.irational.org/irational/
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