Jamie Fenton

Jamie Faye Fenton (born in 1954 as Jay Fenton) is a video game programmer best known for the 1981 arcade video game Gorf and for being one of the creators of MacroMind's VideoWorks software (since renamed Macromedia Director). Jamie has been active in the transgender community and transitioned from male to female around 1998. she also later worked on the Bally Astrocade, and wrote the programming language Bally BASIC, based on Tiny BASIC.

In 1978, Jamie Fenton and Raul Zaritsky created an early example of glitch art, the 3-minute film Digital TV Dinner, played at Electronic Visualization Event 3 in Chicago. In this, Jamie Fenton was ejecting the cartridge from the live Bally Astrocade to create the visual glitches. The second version was aired in 1979 on WTTW Chicago. She also punched the game console.

In 2018, Digital TV Dinner was exhibited in the Chicago New Media 1973-1992 exhibition, curated by Jon Cates. During the exhibition, she played Digital TV Breakfast, a video game by Whitney (Whit) Pow, inspired by Digital TV Dinner. Checkmate (1977) Digital TV Dinner (1978) Bally Astrocade BASIC re-write (1980) Gorf (1981) Robby Roto (1981) Primordial Glitch Art (2018)