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SUPERGAS
SUPERFLEX
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/