Marc Ngui

World-building notes for Jewel of the Boreal, panel 11: “City of Art and Science”

Members of Central Shield Civic Corps conduct the operation of construction A.N.T.s (Autonomous Networked Things) as they repair a carbon capture coil near Superior City. The line between work and play is at best a fuzzy affair in Central Shield. Every citizen is expected to participate as a member of the Central Shield’s Civic Corps. Duties run the range from simple park maintenance to more complicated activities like construction and engineering of the megastructures. In … >> read more

Photo of a two page spread in the book Criticial Visualization.

Diagrams for Critical Visualization

In 2021 I made a series of diagrams for a book called Critical Visualization by Peter A. Hall and Patricio Davila. It was published at the end of 2022 and the contributor copies recently arrived. As the title suggests, this work takes an in depth look at how data is presented and how the viewer of visualizations can understand and accommodate for the inevitably biased systems that produce the data and its representations. It is … >> read more

Welcome to Dee Double Dub title panel

Welcome to Dee Double Dub

Two online workshops coming up for Dee Double Dub, one at the Science Gallery in Detroi and one at Subtle Technologies in Toronto. Catch both online!

Robert Anton Wilson explains our favorite model of human consciousness

The audio files below are the relevant excerpts of the original, extensive, taped interview with Robert Anton Wilson. They are each sides of a tape and about 45 minutes long, and together are the third session of the famous “Sounds True” interview. On this tape Wilson talks about how he got into thinking about these topics in the first place and then famously describes Timothy Leary’s Eight Circuit Model of Human Consciousness. Leary is quoted … >> read more

Return to Toronto

Return to Toronto was created for inclusion in the anthology GreenTOpia, published by Coachhouse Press, Toronto. It was also exhibited at the Ecocity World Summit 2008 in San Francisco, USA. (www.ecocityworldsummit.org) Read more about the ideas behind the images over at Project Hieroglyph.

Lodar and his Bubble Car

Lodar and His Bubblecar

A sequence from a story that follows Lodar, a regular guy in a eutopian future, as he goes about a typical day. I am currently writing the script and designing the world.

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Painting of an arm and nose with river coming out of the nostrils.

Paintings for William Blake’s Four Zoas

Blakean Passages are a series of drawings illustrating text from Willam Blake’s unfinished epic poem  The Four Zoas . You can find the entire text online. FZ1-12.20; E307|       One must be master. try thy Arts I also will try mine FZ1-12.21; E307|        For I percieve Thou hast Abundance which I claim as mine FZ2-30.4;   E319|        In cruel delight they trap the listeners, & in cruel delight FZ2-30.5;   E319|        Bind them, condensing the strong energies into little … >> read more

Illustrations for The Urban Cycling Survival Guide

I have recently completed the illustrations for  a “survival guide” for urban bicyclists. Limited road space shared with large vehicles and impatient drivers in the city can be treacherous for cyclists. This guide provides excellent advice on how to navigate busy streets safely and  get the most out of a bike enabled lifestyle. The guide was written by Yvonne Bambrick, who has been active as a cycling advocate in Toronto for many years.  It was great … >> read more