LO 08: The Creative Practice of an Individual – Mohit Bhoite

Mohit Bhoite creates free-formed circuit sculptures from a workshop in his home in Minneapolis and more recently in San Francisco. His creative practice and art form is inspired by his love of electronics and robotics. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania and received his MS in Robotics there. His primary job is as an engineer at Particle where he designs and engineers custom circuit boards for the Internet of Things, IoT.

In his spare time, to wind down, he found a love of creating brass sculptures containing circuit boards. These sculptures are elegant in their simplicity. In his day job Bhoite focuses on utility and efficiency for his boards. In his art he focuses on the joy he finds in creating what he calls “useless” projects. I admire his projects because they bring him joy. Bhoite creates for the joy of it. His brass sculptures are clocks, thermometers, light sources, and games. His aesthetic is streamlined, soldered brass rods that emulate satellites, robots, or simple objects. His circuits and displays are connected to the internet and can convey a large amount of information. He likes to put human emotion into his displays rather than raw data. For example, he has an air monitor that displays a robotic happy face when the air is safe. It gets more distressed as the quality deteriorates.

Bhoite presented his process and work at the 2019 Eyeo Festival. He presents his work mostly through photographs, circuit schematics, and source code. He is inspiring because he shares everything about his process and simply wants to share the joy of creation. My favorite project of his is a sand particle generator. It is an LED emulation of falling sand as it is tilted.

Eyeo 2019 – Mohit Bhoite from Eyeo Festival on Vimeo.