Everything You Are Looking For: TED Fellows Ryan Holladay and Alicia Eggert have a conversation about their new exhibit

TED Fellows Ryan Holladay (left) and Alicia Eggert (center) have opened a new exhibit, called Everything You Are Looking For, with the help of Artisphere co-curator Cynthia Connolly (right). Photo: Artisphere

Alicia Eggert makes kinetic sculptures that investigate the nature of language and time. Meanwhile, Ryan Holladay is a musical artist who creates sound-specific installations and GPS compositions as part of the duo BLUEBRAIN. Just a week before TED2013, Eggert and Holladay made contact for the very first time.

See, Holloday is a curator of new media at Artisphere. And he was sitting in his office with how co-curator, Cynthia Connolly, when an inquiry came in from an artist — Eggert, of course. Holloday found her materials intriguing — he loved the way she modified simple household items and was enamored with her highly complex interactive sculptures. He explains, ”But this had me pinching myself: like me, Alicia was a…