Lisa B Woods

2025 art + science resident

Ut Austin Center for Dynamics
and Control of Materials

This project explores active equilibrium as both a physical phenomenon and a metaphor for how scientific ideas evolve.

Inspired by cutting-edge research in soft and active matter physics at UT’s MRSEC, my residency traces a lineage of discovery—from Einstein’s Brownian motion to today’s advances in 2D materials—by building a dynamic sculptural structure, step by step.

Scientific and artistic inquiry are rarely straight lines of breakthroughs. Both are shaped by a shifting balance of forces, reflecting how ideas move: through motion, adaptation, and continuous exchange.