Last month at Banff Centre, Calgary University’s Mind, Matter, and Media Lab (M3Lab) created an interactive digital art installation called Flocking Stories, which seeks to ask the question, “How do the stories we tell about ourselves bring us together or force us to seek out new paths?” Surrounded by projected simulations of flocking “boids”—digital bird-like shapes—visitors explored open source code by playing instruments, experimenting with motion sensors, and recording personal stories about