The Pixel Room

Connor Gottfried is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and technologist living and working in Calgary, Canada. He was exposed to technology at a very early age when his father brought home an Apple II computer in 1982 and this sparked a lifelong interest in computation and interactivity. As the founder/CEO of Leara eLearning, Connor uses technology…

Based in Luxembourg, Pixel Games SARL-S (more commonly referred to as ‘pixel games’) is a bite-sized, independent development studio focused on creating classic arcade experiences for modern consoles. As the name suggests, the studio’s creative focus revolves entirely around pixel art games with limited color palettes, where every pixel counts. The company was founded by…

Cindy Rizza is a classically trained, representational oil painter who received her BFA from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Her iconic representations of familiar domestic subjects summon conflicting feelings of comfort and insecurity, shelter and confinement, and love and loss. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant,…

Eric Shaw is a self-taught painter whose bold geometric abstraction draws from the rich visual environment of New York City. Elements of graphic design found in street signs, logos, and advertisements are stretched and skewed as Shaw sketches out what he sees using a drawing app on his phone. The sketches are further copied, pasted…

Merk Aveli is an independent artist floating between conflicting worlds of fine art and street art. Merk Aveli has been working in graffiti, digital art, and murals for the past 30 years. His work blends traditional spray, pen and brush techniques techniques with digital tools. His original style developed over a lifetime of exploration and…

Hunter Macleod is a film and digital photographer working and living on the Maine seacoast. He has a huge passion for photography and cameras. Around 2012, he started collecting old film cameras and became obsessed with how they all work. He then quickly fell into digital photography along the way and began bringing a camera…

In his abstract digital photo-art, self-taught visual artist Joris Graaf (The Hague, 1980) seeks to create tension by forming a synthesis of opposites: melody and noise, rhythm and chaos, darkness and light. His work is inspired by music and contemporary abstract painting. He is fascinated by the emotive power of colour and shape. Joris has…

A Bristol, UK based artist, Hodgkinson creates unique works which have been used commercially for bands such as Keane, Archive & Brigade, as well as moving visual productions for live events, working with a broad scope of artists, including Stormzy, Ed Sheeran, Dave, Mabel, The Rolling Stones. “Collage occupies the central focus of my work; creating…