Looking Outwards 08 – aarnavp

Mohit Bhoite is a senior hardware engineer at Particle, where he designs and builds their flagship Internet of Things products, focusing on freeform circuit boards for sculpture and art pieces. He focused his education in robotics, specifically the discipline of modular robotics, which has influenced his art practice of free form kinetic sculptures.

Mohit’s work cleverly approaches the complex field of robotics and circuit board building, which is seen as a very strict practice. In his lecture, Mohit describes the duality behind his practice and traditional circuit board design, where his aligns with the concept of rapid prototyping, and appreciating the artistic intentions that occur when working without the constraints of “industry standards” such as 3D printing/mass production of circuits. I especially liked how he manages to incorporate aesthetic into his design, as he says he drew inspiration from stained glass in his circuit board designs – specifically his Tye Fighter alarm clock.

It’s very interesting how he approaches circuit boards as its own medium, looking at the materiality of them in shaping his practices – this iterative process is often very much used with artists and can definitely be applied to these more formal practices.

https://www.bhoite.com/