The artist residency program at the Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials enables artists to work with CDCM faculty to create contemporary art installations that demonstrate emerging science and technology, bringing fundamental concepts in science to the public in very tangible, engaging ways.
Virginia Lee Montgomery was funded as the CDCM Artist in Residence during 2024. She works with video, sculpture, performance, and sound and her artwork is a practice of metaphysics, latently autobiographical, often with a feminist impulse. Virginia was embedded in Prof. Brian Korgel’s lab studying quantum dots and hosted two artist talks while at CDCM. She produced a hanging mobile and video showcasing CDCM research. The mobile hangs in one of the main common areas at the Engineering Education and Research Building at the University of Texas at Austin with a QR code linked to her video that hangs beside the mobile. The video is also hosted on the CDCM website: https://mrsec.utexas.edu/education-outreach/artssciences-collaborative-model
