Murmuration: the choreography of dissent explores the delicate tension between individual agency and collective movement through an interactive digital canvas. This piece visualises political dynamics as emergent behaviour. Thousands of digital entities navigate the complex interplay of three fundamental social forces: separation (the desire for autonomy), alignment (the pull towards consensus), and cohesion (the need for unity).

As you move your cursor across the canvas, you become an unseen influence — perhaps authority, perhaps disruption — sending ripples through the collective. The birds react, scatter, and reorganise, demonstrating how movements respond to external pressures whilst maintaining their essential character.

The fluid mathematical precision of the flocking reveals the underlying patterns that govern seemingly chaotic social phenomena.

This work invites meditation on how our social systems emerge from simple interactions magnified across entities, how individual decisions culminate in sweeping group movements, and how these movements adapt, resist, transform and fade when confronted with outside forces.