Ubiquitous technology depends upon imposing standards. Choices in function and form reflect the homogenization of artifacts, necessitated by the intentions of experts to satisfy a plurality of users. In material publics, users with expert knowledge can develop customized artifacts satisfying desired affordances or aesthetics. This project involves a media archaeology of computer keyboard design to explore the relationship between experts, publics, and the creation of these artifacts. Participation in these communities and study of enthusiast records result in a public-expert knowledge. The importance granted to minutia of design, from the choice of plastics to spring tensioning, parallels new form factors that reflect highly personalized choices. These reassert user control over the materiality of an otherwise ubiquitous and mundane mediating artifact. Publics then create a new political materiality by recomposing artifacts beyond what commercial expertise prescribes.

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“享受你的感觉”：物质大众的媒体考古

无所不在的技术取决于强加的标准。功能和形式的选择反映了人工制品的均质化，这是专家意图满足多个用户所必需的。在物质上的公众中，具有专业知识的用户可以开发出满足所需价格或美观要求的定制文物。该项目涉及计算机键盘设计的媒体考古，以探索专家，公众与这些人工制品之间的关系。参与这些社区并研究发烧友的记录会产生公共专家知识。从塑料的选择到弹簧的张紧，对设计细节的重视使平行的新形状因素得以体现，这些因素反映了高度个性化的选择。这些重新声明了用户对原本无处不在且平凡的中介伪像的重要性的控制。公众然后通过重组超出商业专业知识规定的人工制品来创造新的政治重要性。