Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateidea We all love broken things. WAIT WHAT?! Yes, you read that correctly. You may have noticed this thing called "glitch", where people purposely push machines to malfunction, creating fascinating "mistakes". But instead of being frustrated and disdainful of these errors (like we usually do when our technology fails mid-workflow, grrr) we find them to be bizarrely beautiful! Why are we so interested in these images, music, or objects that are structurally or formally broken? Watch the episode and find out! Links: Milo Hartnoll JPG Portraits: http://bit.ly/17Dm3yV How to Do Circuit Bending: http://bit.ly/17Dm2v3 Circuit Bent Speak & Spell http://bit.ly/17Dm329 Datamoshing Test Sequence #1 http://bit.ly/17Dm4TJ Kinect Dance Shoot http://bit.ly/17Dm71E Glitch Cabinet by Ferruccio Laviani: http://bit.ly/17Dm8Te Classical Greek Sculpture GIFS by Zach Dougherty http://bit.ly/17Dm9ql Text Visualized as Music: http://bit.ly/17Dmcm4 Phillip Stearns http://bit.ly/17Dmb1x ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Video Footnote: Paul M. Leonardi - Digital materiality? How artifacts without matter, matter http://bit.ly/164Buku ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tweet of the Week: http://bit.ly/17Dmbib ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Come hang out in the Idea Channel IRC! http://bit.ly/138EHBh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music: "Europe" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net/) "Carry on Carillon" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net/) "Bouncy Castle" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net/) ":P" by Roglok (http://www.roglok.net/) Level 5: Room for the Homeless http://bit.ly/10N0Ykm Binarpilot http://bit.ly/10N0UBf Let us know what sorts of crazy ideas you have, about this episode and otherwise: Tweet at us! @pbsideachannel (yes, the longest twitter username ever) Email us! pbsideachannel [at] gmail [dot] com Idea Channel Facebook! http://Facebook.com/pbsideachannel Hosted by Mike Rugnetta (@mikerugnetta) Made by Kornhaber Brown (http://www.kornhaberbrown.com/) Want some more Idea Channel? Here's Last Week's episode: "Does Animal Crossing Promote Otaku Citizenship?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHmIYMFM7AQ Want another one? Here ya go: Here's Some More: "Is the Discovery of Global Warming Our Greatest Scientific Achievement?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M1BPz0nY3s