For the latest edition of the 404 Electronic Arts Festival happening in Taipei, we were handed a single phrase to start with, "Error is creation."  We decided to create a genesis of cumulative information that formed into an electric world.  Using glitches, random particle systems and generative constructs the film opens on tethered points and develops into the formation of a tower within a city.

A primary inspiration for us was the Walrus navigation system developed by the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA).  The Walrus system develops three dimensional models based on internet traffic.  Visually these models are intriguing with their clustered densities taking on organic properties and shapes.  We hadn't seen one of these models animate before and hence our imagining became the open sequence for the 404 Identity.