The Pixel Room

Born with an innate passion for capturing moments, Ralph Morse’s artistic journey began after high school when he eagerly embarked on a career in photography. Starting from humble beginnings, he worked alongside a seasoned photographer, sweeping floors and delivering pictures, gradually honing his skills. In 1939, Morse’s relentless dedication paid off when he secured a…

Connor Gottfried is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, and technologist based in Calgary, Canada. His artistic practice combines elements of technology, music, and visual art to create a unique analog/digital hybrid approach that connects the viewer to lost and obsolete technologies of play. Growing up, Gottfried was exposed to technology at an early age when his…

Pixel Games SARL-S, an independent development studio founded by Sebastian Kostka, is focused on bringing classic arcade experiences to modern consoles. Based in Luxembourg, the studio’s creative vision is centered around pixel art games with limited color palettes. Kostka, who is responsible for all the game art and most of the development cycle, is a…

Founded in 1972, Atari played an integral role in the development of the arcade game, home console, and personal computer industries. Atari’s iconic games, including Pong, Asteroids, Centipede, Missile Command, have been played by millions around the world. The brand continues to bring joy to gamers with its expanding portfolio of PC, console, and mobile…

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…