The methods by which our contemporary devices and our future technologies communicate with one another occurs in a layer of reality which is beyond our perceptual means: the electromagnetic spectrum. We are not capable of perceiving this layer, nor are we meant to understand its workings — its ever-omni-presence is taken for granted. Nonetheless, the layer is there, waiting for us to pick up a device and utilize it. Therefore, our only understanding of this infrastructure is based on our experiences at the surface of these devices which defines how, where, and when we have that access. Affection Stations materialize this intangible layer — making it physical, exposed, open to affective interpretative effects — an immersive intimate experience which alters the perception of our contemporary tools of communication from objective functional objects into subjective affective artifacts.

Affection Stations instigate a paradigm shift on the relationships we have with our electronic devices, by transcoding their imperceptible nature into our perceptual level of reality — becoming visible, physical, and tangible. The Stations incite the designing of electronic residuals, being productive with it, designing incidental sound, designing noise. They are for the public. They are a means to poetically inform our generation and of those to come, of the materiality of our time. They are a means to express the possibilities of new relationships with our devices — a shift on how they are constructed physically and computationally. They embrace the inevitable electromagnetic spectrum, and poetically unveil a realm for design to take hold. They allow us to accept the notion that our devices are more organic and unique than we believe, and proposes a new level of digital transparency which may inform the social development and interactions between humans and computers.