ABSTRACT

In the 1960s, the group of artists known as Gruppo T created artworks that turned the audience into active users. Through the organization of a workshop at a fablab, the project Re-Programmed Art: an Open Manifesto involved a group of artists from both Italy and Switzerland in a process of open source re-programming of artworks by Gruppo T. This chapter tells how this crucial episode in the history of the arts has been connected with contemporary practices linked to maker culture and open design and to a discourse on an art for everyone that can be replicated freely and collaboratively.