Hi, I’m Jaime.

As a artist working with both craft and technology, I’m drawn to the beauty of the mistake—the glitch, the tangle, the thing that wasn’t supposed to happen but did. But a glitch isn’t just an error. It’s a portal, a break in the system that forces something new to emerge. My work is about reconsidering what we call broken—whether it’s a tangled or frayed thread, a distorted image, or a body in transition—and finding power in the process. I want to see what happens when we stop trying to fix what’s broken and instead lean into the chaos, letting it reshape us into something new.

Biography

Jaime Derringer (b. 1978, BA Temple University)

Jaime Derringer is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersections of technology, the body, and the mind. Rooted in both digital and fiber-based practices, her work examines the relationship between women’s bodies and computers, drawing parallels between the biological glitches of menopause and the technical glitches of outdated systems.

Her Glitch Weavings series is a meditation on this transformation, using traditional weaving—a historically feminine craft—to visualize the experience of perimenopause and societal perceptions of aging women. Instead of viewing these biological "glitches" as malfunctions, she reclaims them as system upgrades, a radical reframing of personal and cultural narratives. Inspired by Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism and the cyberfeminism movement, Derringer sees the glitch as a rupture through which freedom is possible: a point of evolution rather than failure.

Beyond fiber, Derringer works in digital abstraction, often integrating AI, MIDI controllers, and visual programming into her practice. Her Chromesthesia series is an experiment in digital deconstruction, where original drawings, AI-generated imagery, and fractal elements are run through various applications and manipulated in real time via MIDI controllers or using a generative timing process. The process yields thousands of iterations, with only a rare few emerging as final compositions—glitchy, layered abstractions that capture the fleeting nature of creative emergence.

Her Sandworms and Sketchbook series, in contrast, is a raw exploration of mental health, heightened consciousness, and chronic illness. These tangled, chaotic, layered drawings mirror the overwhelming web of thoughts and emotions that define anxiety and depression, turning inner turbulence into visual form. For Derringer, art-making is both a means of processing and a method of care—an essential act of self-preservation.


Get in touch:
jaimederringer@gmail.com