[2] Fenton was drawn to computer technology while in school because its highly predictable nature appealed to her and it provided a haven from being picked on by other students.
[2] In 1975, while studying computer science in the University of Wisconsin, Jamie and fellow student Tom McHugh volunteered to work at Dave Nutting Associates, who enlisted their help to redesign pinball machines and the Japanese arcade game Western Gun using Intel's 8080 microprocessor, [4] she also later worked on the Bally Astrocade,[5] and wrote the programming language Bally BASIC, based on tiny basic.
[6] In 1978, Jamie Fenton created an early example of glitch art entitled Digital TV Dinner, a 3 minutes film, with Raul Zaritsky.
[7][8] For this project, Jamie Fenton was ejecting the cartridge inserted in the Bally Astrocade in wrong moment, to create the glitches.
[10] A second version will be presented in 1979. in 1981, while working at Midway Manufacturing, Jamie Fenton designed the game Gorf.