Felix Bodin
(SE)
I clearly remember my first electric motor. I found it in a ditch, my grandpa helped me wire it to a battery, and we constructed a crude on/off switch out of wood and wire. I was five years old. The distinct buzzing, micro-vibrations and smell of tiny electric sparks brought this junkyard scruff more personality, character, vitality — life, than some people I met.
The experience of writing my first lines of code was similar. I almost fell off my chair when the algorithm executed. With ease, and in no time the computer had counted to 100. My entire body knew I just witnessed something world-changing. I remember calling mom into my room, showing her the revolutionary program. But seeing the numbers 1 to 100 printed in sequential order on my screen, she had trouble sharing my excitement.
The fascination of life springing from the non-living has been with me since my first memories. I’ve spent my master studies investigating this phenomenon. I call it Poetic Emergence.
Felix Bodin interned at ta denretni nidoB xileF
Graduation Project
Near Life
Evovled from the research emerges Liv, an alien to this world who has alot to say.
Thesis
Poetic Emergence – A collection of near life experiences