Long before the telephone, birds carried messages. Mechanical Bird does the same — but through the ether.
Maria Saha is an artist and coder, a Yale graduate, a Henry Street Settlement Van Lier Fellow, and has worked with artists Donald Judd, Tony Bechara, and Jeff Koons. She previously collaborated with Denver Butson on the cigar box project and on a photographic/poetry sculpture and book called We All Kiss Something Secretly. Maria's work looks to find the magical in the mundane in both digital and physical mediums. Her collaborations with Butson have combined her love for drawing, technology, vernacular photography, and word in unique and exciting ways.
Denver Butson is a poet who is always looking for ways to get poems off the page through collaboration and other visual and audio methods. He has published four books of poetry, has been featured in Poetry 180, in dozens of journals and anthologies, and regularly on National Public Radio. A New York Foundation for the Arts Individual Artist Fellow, Denver has been thrice-nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His frequent collaborations with musicians, visual artists, and actors have been showcased in many venues throughout the US and abroad.