I wrote the texts, scripts, images, characters, and interactions of “The Flocking Party” in conjunction with one another. The different elements sit on each page in syntax, like creatures in an aquarium. I wanted these species to have a lot of interactions with one another, so they had to be written simultaneously. This way they could interact more like a network, but I needed a medium that allowed this sort of writing. One that served this purpose was Macromedia's Flash. I treated Flash like an aquarium or a micro-media-ecology, acting as facilitator to the interactions. My role in this ecology was not to play God. It was to play-out the interactions and facilitate the evolution of their relationships, finding generative arrangements between them. I was an agent of the interaction process.

The characters in my story also took shape from their interaction. Their personalities and interactions gradually developed through their relationship to one another. These things took on life throughout the construction of the story. One interaction at a time helped me to see new possibilities allowing the story to emerge like a logic puzzle. This emergence was inevitably guided by my preexisting internal representations, affecting the way I recognized relationships between characters and contexts. Simultaneously, the fresh representations changed my map of the story and the connections that their symbols have to bigger, abstract ideas.

In the writing process, I tried to address a lot of the concerns and conflicts that arose between people, animals, technologies, and media. Much like an organism with many opposing pressures, my work was forced to evolve. It produced a strange and unique creature. It's an organism that addresses the problems in unexpected ways. The story provides interacting examples, birds and biotechnology, which rendezvous in the brain. These two main narrative subjects share a whole anatomy with others, such as narration, character, and mediation. Because they are located in a fictional story, the case studies take on speculative characteristics to forge new connections across the conceptual divide of nature and technology.